Youth Advisory Board
Buffalo County Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is a program and a philosophy that recognizes youth as valuable resources in their community and empowers them as equal community partners to bring about positive community change. Buffalo County YAB, governed by a board of youth and adults and supported by local funders, provide grants for youth-initiated and youth-led community projects. Youth tackle a range of social problems that concern them from our economy and environment to safety, tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs.
Once a year the Youth Advisory Board takes a trip to Lincoln to meet with state senators about issues that they as a board have deemed important in their communities.
The Buffalo County Youth Advisory Board began in 2000 with over 50 Buffalo County youth engaged in building a model youth board that would encompass all Buffalo County communities. Youth in 7th-12th grade, from the following communities can serve on the board: Amherst, Pleasanton, Elm Creek, Ravenna, Gibbon, Shelton, Kearney, Kearney Catholic, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller.
Check out their web site here!
2011-2012 Youth Advisory Board Members
Maranda Kegley
Zane Peterson
Brian Wietjes
Gibbon High School
Saul Aguilar
Olivia Hyde
Maddison Hyde
Kearney High School
Jack Anderson
Hannah Loseke
Isabel Thalken
Rosamond Thalken
Griffin Mims
Molly Klinginsmith
Spencer Lowe
Alex Lowe
Garrison Lowe
Pleasanton High School
Jenna Martin
Adam Ripp
Armando Tapia
Kaden Zwiener
Elm Creek High School
Justine Bauer
Trenton Hoffman
Dalton Meier
Michael Steele
Katie Schambach
Sarah Teichmeier
Shelton High School
Mariah Henninger
David Mueller
Clayton Stoppkotte
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller
Lance English
Chase Erwin
Andrey Gallegos
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