Local high school students chosen to attend this year’s Students Inside Albany program
Gigi B. (Dobbs Ferry High School), and Christian B., (Sleepy Hollow High School), have been chosen by the League of Women Voters of the Rivertowns to attend this year’s Students Inside Albany program.
On May 21 – 24, 2023, they joined 60 students from across NYS to learn the ins-and-outs of state government, participate in a series of interactive lectures on the state budget process, the roles of lobbyists in the legislative process, media in politics, citizen rights to access government information, They shadowed Assembly representative and LWVR member Maryjane Shimsky.