I just submitted our proposal for the Make It Your Own award. It was an exhausting, but rewarding collaborative process, involving many late nights of work with some of the core team partners: David Smith (Mobilize.org), Luke Repici (Association of Young Americans) and Luke Shepard (Facebook).

I am proud of the work we did on the application. I think it represents a wonderful vision for the future. We are all very excited to roll up our sleeves and continue the work!

I've been focusing my time since reaching the top 100 stage on talking talking talking! I've been talking to various members of the Youth Policy Action Center community, listening, learning, getting ideas for how we can shape this project together!

On tap for this weekend: talking with David Smith from Mobilize.org and Luke from the Association of Youth Americans (who is also in the top 100 -- how great would it be if a couple of the top 100 could figure out a way to jointly do their projects!