Your voice has power. Learn how to use it.
Join a statewide community of high school students ready to lead, advocate for the issues they care about, and create real change in their schools and communities.
It's more than a club, it's a leadership movement.
The Leadership Advocacy Council brings together high school students from across Connecticut for a full year of leadership, community, and action.
Throughout the program, you'll hear from inspiring guest speakers, strengthen your leadership and public speaking skills, collaborate with peers, and turn the issues you care about into meaningful advocacy.
This is a place to build confidence, learn alongside other students, and connect with people who care about making a difference too.
You won't just talk about change, you'll put what you've learned into action.
Lead Change
Build the confidence and skills to advocate for the issues that matter to you and the people around you.
Find Your Community
Connect with driven high school students from across Connecticut who care about creating real change too.
Build Leadership Skills
Get real practice in advocacy, public speaking, collaboration, project planning, and civic engagement.
Create Real Impact
Work with your peers on meaningful advocacy initiatives, then bring everything you've learned to LiveGirl's Day at the Capitol.
From learning to leading.
The Leadership Advocacy Council is designed as one complete experience. Each part of the program builds toward the next.
Connect
Meet student leaders from across Connecticut and become part of a statewide community of changemakers.
Learn
Hear from guest speakers and explore leadership, advocacy, civic engagement, and the issues shaping your generation.
Lead
Build confidence through public speaking, collaboration, campaign planning, and advocacy work.
Take Action
Put what you've learned into practice at LiveGirl's Day at the Capitol.
Ready to do more than sit on the sidelines?
You don't need to already consider yourself a leader, and you don't need to know everything about advocacy.
You need curiosity, a willingness to speak up, and a commitment to showing up.
If you care about making your school, your community, or your state better, there's a place for you here.
Members should plan to stay engaged throughout the October through April program and participate in the culminating LiveGirl Day at the Capitol.
2026–2027
Program Details
Leadership in action: LiveGirl high school student Heylin Lopes with Connecticut Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas.
Leadership gets real when you step into the room.
Advocacy is more than learning how government works or talking about the issues you care about. It's learning how to walk into a room with confidence, share what you believe, listen to other perspectives, and understand that you can help shape what happens next.
Throughout the year, Leadership Advocacy Council members build those skills together and connect what they're learning to the people, institutions, and decisions shaping their communities.
Turn what you've learned into action.
The Leadership Advocacy Council culminates with LiveGirl's Day at the Capitol, where students put the leadership and advocacy skills they've built throughout the year into practice.
It's where months of learning, conversation, collaboration, and confidence-building come together in a real-world experience.
Ready to lead what comes next?
Join high school students from across Connecticut who are ready to learn, lead, speak up, and turn their ideas into action.
Join the Leadership Advocacy CouncilRegistration opens September 9
