Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
In the spring of 2017, Jessica Butay, a Hawai’i native who was about to graduate from college in Colorado, had…
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Thirty years ago, when I was 17 years old, I was part of an idealistic experiment, a summer pilot program…
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City Year CEO and Co-Founder Michael Brown spoke with David L. Cohen, senior executive vice president and chief diversity officer…
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Over the last 30 years, City Year alumni, now more than 32,000 strong, have been instrumental in helping to drive…
Read the storyAnother year of service complete! On Thursday, June 6th, 270 City Year Los Angeles AmeriCorps members were joined by family,…
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Just as our AmeriCorps members give their all to support our students, our organization and staff strive to give our…
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We were able to have a chat with Akida Azad and talk about her service with City Year. We talked…
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For nearly 20 years, City Year AmeriCorps members have had the opportunity to serve in this important and distinctive city.
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One of our guiding stories, “The Starfish Story,” is used to describe a student our AmeriCorps members know they made…
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At a school in California, a student named Juan* takes a deep breath by the classroom door before returning to…
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As a native of Jacksonville, Allishia Bauman is City Year Jacksonville’s Chief of Staff and is involved in a number…
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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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