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Freedom is only as strong as the rights that protect it, and rights are only as strong as the people who know them, use them, and defend them. During a month when we celebrate both Juneteenth and Pride, the Office of Advocacy wants to have an honest conversation about something that can feel heavy: what it means to stay civically engaged as an LGBTQ person, especially when the legal landscape keeps shifting beneath your feet. Let's name the reality. Being civically engaged as

In a year when the nation celebrates 250 years of freedom, the Office of Youth & Education wants to talk about a kind of freedom that doesn't get enough attention: financial freedom. Because for a young person standing at the edge of adulthood, few things shape the rest of their life more than whether the door to higher education is open or closed. The math is unforgiving. A college degree remains one of the most reliable pathways to economic mobility, to higher lifetime earn

There is a particular kind of meaning to celebrating freedom in the month of June, in the year the United States turns 250. This is the month of Juneteenth, June 19, the day in 1865 when freedom finally reached the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is not simply a date. It is a reminder that freedom in America has always arrived unevenly, that it has had to be carried the last mile by the people still wait