Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Reform Rising is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at empowering high school students to actively participate in the real-world policy-making process. Modeled after the successful efforts led by Stuart Wexler's high school class, which resulted in the Civil Rights Cold Case Records and Collection Act of 2018, Reform Rising seeks to scale this transformative educational experience nationally.

The Reform Rising approach uses a unique, “four rule/four task force” model perfected, through trial-and-error, by Wexler and his former students. Through this model, students learn, through real-world policy making: teamwork, coalition-building, deep research, federalism, separation-of-powers, the committee system, party composition and organization of legislatures, media and public relations, communication, and persuasion.