Media

USA Today asked Mikva's executive director, Brian Brady, what he thought about the intense interest among youth in this year's election.  "It's sort of a myth that they're apathetic," he said. "There's a lot that they care about."

Read the full article here.

Students from North Lawndale College Prep were profiled in the Chicago Tribune for the project they presented at Mikva's annual Civics Fair on April 26:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-mikva-kidsapr27,1,1587952.story  

Listen here to a podcast of Chicago Public Radio's report on the Peace and Leadership Council at Roberto Clemente Community Academy:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=20644

Check out media coverage of  Mikva's Spring Peace Campaign Kick-Off event at Walter Payton College Prep on April 11, 2008:

"Trying to stop the madness at start of city's sad season" (Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times):
http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/892575,CST-NWS-brown13.article

"Students get lessons in horrors of gang life" (Rosalind Rossi, Chicago Sun-Times):
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/891403,CST-NWS-violence12.article

"Students put heads together to bring peace to their lives" (Kayce T. Ataiyero, Chicago Tribune):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-cps-peace-rally_12apr12,0,139184.story

Some Mikva students have been recently profiled in the press:

Marc Ford
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=82543

Ladarius Beal
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080318/young-republicans-a-proud-minority_1.htm