Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
When I remember my childhood, I see the reading nook in my first-grade classroom, my mom helping me to pick a book in…
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Impact manager Alysa Hemcher shares her City Year bucket list.
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Planning McDonough’s literacy night was the most exhilarating, exhausting, stressful, and rewarding thing I have done at City Year (or…
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Learn how FIRST LEGO League and CIty Year are helping to extend educational equity through engineering in this afterschool program.
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Starting the City Year experience, the thing I was most looking forward to being involved in was Leadership Lunch. I…
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We’re all settling down after recess. The hands on the clock hit 12:35 p.m. and four students stand up, each…
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Believe or not, I used to really hate running. Running was a constant reminder for me of all the things…
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