BCAD faculty affiliate Cecilia Mo’s research about national service programs and political participation was featured in Science

Cecilia Mo was quoted in Science:

Researchers had theorized that national service programs could improve dismally low voting participation rates among young adults. But the analysis of the TFA program, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), confirms and quantifies that positive relationship for the first time.

The finding strikes a personal chord for the paper’s lead author, Cecilia Mo, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Mo spent 2 years in the early 2000s as a TFA corps member, teaching math in a Los Angeles high school, and says the experience fueled her decision to study ways to foster democratic ideals and reduce inequality. “We would all sit around and talk about how the experience has shaped our view of politics, increased our empathy for others, and influenced our career paths,” she says about her TFA colleagues.

The full article is available here.

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