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Audio Diary: What It's Like to Lobby Sacramento As a 14-Year Old

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We hear from a teen who recently went to Sacramento to lobby real elected officials for the first time. Jeremiah Castillo joined a group of about 200 young people for a youth advocacy summit. He wanted to talk about something that's really important to him: preventing kids from getting profiled as gang members. He recorded this audio diary chronicling his trip.

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