- Youth Leadership
- Civic Engagement
- Millennial Engagement
Christin “Cici” Battle is the director of People For the American Way Foundation’s Young People For, the organization’s national leadership development organization for college-aged folks. Hailing from Miami, Florida by way of Denver, Colorado, Battle is a youth engagement expert that has developed and directed youth programs in local, state and international spaces. Battle is the first director of Young People For that has also previously participated in the Young People For fellowship program.
Most recently, Battle served as a professor of leadership development at SENA in Cali, Colombia where she created and implemented the colleges’ first leadership development curriculum. She also created the Florida Youth Commission—the youth lead body that advises the governors cabinet on all youth related issues.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a certificate in leadership development and a master’s degree in higher education policy. In 2014, she was awarded the Florida Gubernatorial Program Public Service award and is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
Christin “Cici” Battle's Areas of Expertise
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Blog Post | April 4, 2018
50 Years After King’s Death, A Legacy of Youth Leadership Endures
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Blog Post | March 30, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: Rural Communities and Right-Wing Extremism
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Blog Post | March 23, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: Should I Delete My Facebook?
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Blog Post | March 16, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: How the Alt-Right is Pushing Hate on YouTube
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Blog Post | March 9, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: Inequity in Our Schools
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Blog Post | February 23, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: The Census is a Civil Rights Issue
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Blog Post | February 16, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: One Year of Jeff Sessions
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Blog Post | February 9, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: Standing Up for Workers’ Rights
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Blog Post | February 2, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: The State of Our Union is Not Normal
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Blog Post | January 26, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: The Anti-Choice Movement Tries an (Old) New Tactic