YAP! — An Experiment in Civic Participation
How can technology, culture, entertainment, and storytelling make local civic life relevant to young people?
YAP! explores new ways to engage young people in civic life — an ongoing civic innovation lab I co-founded. It keeps its own identity here; By Zainab is where you learn that I helped build it, not where YAP! itself lives.
Civic educationDigital organizingStreet interviewsInteractive websitesSurveysShort-form videoLocal issue campaignsCivic technology experimentsYouth-centered public engagement
The Lab
Individual civic experiments, as they launch — this is where Raleigh Youth Power and future YAP! projects will live.
Raleigh Youth Power
Civic technology, organizing, and youth engagement.
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