16 year old Tiffany Missembe is a youth organizer of Vote16DC, a coalition of youth and adults that are fighting to extend voting rights to 16 and 17 year olds in Washington D.C. through the Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2018.
Produced during the 2018 Student Reporting Labs Academy by student producers Xavier Dominguez, Savannah Burrows, Elijah Magana, and Linda Olvera-Jones and mentoring producers Kristy Choi from PBS NewsHour and Lisa Wilk from WHYY.
These DC-area teens want to lower the voting age to 16 from Student Reporting Labs on Vimeo.