U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) recently launched the ninth year of his Congressional Youth Cabinet at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock.
This year, 80 participants were selected from public, private, charter and homeschools across the Natural State for their demonstrated community leadership and involvement, representing some of Arkansas’s best and brightest students, according to a news release.
“I was pleased to welcome the next generation of our state’s leaders to this year’s Congressional Youth Cabinet where they will explore legislative solutions to issues that interest them and meet peers who share their enthusiasm for civic engagement and the democratic process,” said Boozman. “Their excitement for this initiative is encouraging and I know they will collaborate eagerly while working to identify their policy priorities, conduct impressive research and present their findings and ideas later this school year.”
Boozman and his office designed the Congressional Youth Cabinet as a nonpartisan, civics-based program to offer students a first-hand experience with the democratic process and the opportunity to understand how public policy impacts them, their families and their communities. The students will attend meetings throughout the school year and work in teams to select and then research national issues that they will present policy recommendations on to the senator and his staff the following spring.
Students from the four Congressional Districts in Arkansas were selected to participate in the Congressional Youth Cabinet for the 2025-2026 school year.
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The 4th Congressional District, which includes southeast Arkansas students, includes the following participants:
Belle Groomes — Poyen High School;
Lillian Baker — Sheridan High School;
Adelynn Woolsey — Ozark High School;
David Robertson — Fountain Lake High School;
Donovan Hurtarte — Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts;
Ethan Shaffett — Fountain Lake High School;
Eva Nell Windle — Lakeside High School;
Faith Grim — Gospel Light Christian School;
Hayden Hudson — Jasper High School;
Jayden Pennington — West Side Christian School;
Kyan Lane Baynes — Dover High School;
Zander Schoultz — Lakeside High School;
Marleigh Futrell — Lake Hamilton High School;
Meadow Sanders — Fountain Lake High School;
Mia Hamilton — Dover High School;
Mikale McBroom — De Queen High School;
Nathalie Lagula — Lakeside High School;
Paris Goodman — Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts;
Rowan Bordelon — Lakeside High School; and
Tucker Shaw — Ozark High School.
For names of students in the other three congressional districts and other details, visit https://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/.