Claire Thornton is a San Antonio native and a senior at John Marshall High School in Northside ISD. This year Claire studied Political Science and Civic Engagement as part of her work for a class at Marshall called Independent Study Mentorship, or ISM. Dr. Dhawn Martin, Lecturer in Civic Engagement and Social Action at St. Mary’s University, mentors Claire. As part of Claire’s work for ISM, she volunteers with Battleground Texas and was a fellow of Wendy Davis’ 2014 Texas Gubernatorial campaign. This summer Claire plans to be involved with the Battleground Texas Summer Fellowship program.
Last Thursday, a whole year’s worth of my work and research culminated into what I called a Civic Engagement Symposium. The symposium served as my final product for a course called Independent Study Mentorship, or ISM. The program
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020