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Welcome to the October edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County.
In today’s podcast, host Jim Allison speaks with Simone Smith, the winning contestant in the League of Women Voters Brown County’s essay contest on redistricting, and Shari Frank, the president of the League of Women Voters of Brown County.
Simone won the contest for the Grade 9-12 category. Essays were judged anonymously by members of the Brown County Retired Teachers Association.
The prompt was developed in conjunction with the 7th-8th grade “We the People” teacher, and a high school AP History teacher, who just won History Teacher of the Year in Indiana and is going on to Nationals.
Essay_Grade9-12_1st Place Simone Smith (1)
In November, we are talking to Congressman Lee Hamilton on the status of our current democracy. In December, we are talking to Scott Shackelford and Abbey Stemler, IU Mauer School of Law on election security.
