By: Ayva Peterson
Youth In Government has been in Wisconsin since 1952. Youth in Government has a variety of delegates from 7th graders to seniors in high school.
The delegates come from 11 different delegations in Wisconsin. One delegate from the Chippewa delegation, Jami Revoir, has been in Youth in Government since 7th grade.
Jami’s first year in Youth in Government was also the first year of the Chippewa delegation (2016-2017). Jami, now a sophomore in highschool, says that the original reason she joined Youth in Government was because she wanted to go to Madison. Now the only original member of the Chippewa Falls delegation left, she has the most experience of Youth In Government in her delegation.
In Jami’s first year of Youth in Government, she wrote a bill on making kids more challenged in school. Looking back, Jami’s first ever bill did not pass, but she continued to do Youth in Government the following year.
Last year, Jami was in Press Corps, and co-wrote an article on the transgeneder military ban. Jami’s article was one of three articles to be named “Best Article” for Youth in Government 2019. Jami, in her 4th year of Youth in Government, said that the hardest part of Youth in Government so far would be how much work Press Corps has to do at Model Government.
Jami plans to continue Youth in Government until she graduates high school, and to make great memories, a prime example being when she bought a 3-ft long gummy snake at Model Gov her first year.