MOHAMED FARGHALY

mfarghaly@queensledger.com

Seventeen New York City high school students are spending their summer as part of the 2025 NYC Votes Youth Ambassadors program, learning how to mobilize their peers around civic engagement and the electoral process as the city heads into another busy election year.

The program, now in its sixth year, is run by the NYC Campaign Finance Board (CFB), a nonpartisan, independent city agency that oversees local campaign spending and administers the city’s public matching funds program. Under its NYC Votes initiative, the ambassadors receive training in voter outreach, community organizing, and local history while hosting events to help increase youth voter participation across all five boroughs.

“This is really an initiative for New York City High

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