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behind the scenes.
The National Youth Rights Association is the nation’s premier youth rights organization. NYRA is a youth-led national non-profit organization dedicated to fighting for the civil rights and liberties of young people. In the grand tradition of the civil rights movements in the past, we seek to write a new chapter, and create a world where people are not judged by their birth date, but by the content of their character.
Our mission centers on challenging age discrimination against young people, both in law and in attitudes. Many of the basic freedoms afforded to Americans in the Bill of Rights are withheld from youth, and not without troubling consequences for both youth and society as a whole.
NYRA has members in all 50 states, over 7,000 in total, and chapters from coast to coast. We work to lower the voting age, lower the drinking age, repeal curfew laws, protect student rights, and fight against ageism where ever we see it.
NYRA is registered in the State of Maryland as a non-profit corporation. Decisions are made by a Board of Directors (BOD), with advice from a Board of Advisors (BOA). Day-to-day operations are handled by the officers and staff, who are led by our President and Executive Director and accomplish much of the grunt work keeping this organization together. The corporate officers and staff are hired by the Board of Directors, who are in turn voted into office by the membership during an annual election. The board of directors ranges in age from 15 to 30+. Please also check out what we believe and what we've done.
Most of NYRA's energy and activism takes place on the grassroots level. For information on our many dynamic chapters, please check out our chapter page. NYRA's online community is also very important to us, for that check out our active web forums.
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