Hometown Program – Sacramento, CA

“They navigated us through the judicial process—from local trial courts to the Supreme Court—empowering us to see how youth can shape the future of law, policy, and leadership…This wasn’t just a program. It was a blueprint for impact.”

“This program did a really great job at immersing you into the federal court system, and the opportunity to talk to guest speakers and federal judges allows you to ask any pestering questions you may have that other programs just can’t give. To meeting new friends from around the county, to interviewing SCOTUS attorneys, the Hometown Program provides a comprehensive curriculum to educate rising advocates of our government.”

“I really liked getting to sit in and watch actual court cases happening live. It was really interesting and that was my first time being able to do that. It was cool seeing how the case process works and truly seeing what it is like inside a courtroom listening to an actual case."

“One of my favorite parts of the program was hearing from people who had been directly in the [incarceration] camps and had a deep understanding of them. I appreciated being able to learn about the in-depth knowledge that is often excluded from the lessons taught to students nowadays.”