EDUCATED           CITIZENRY

Educated Citizenry (ECit) is dedicated to advancing political literacy around the world through scholarship, grassroots activism and civics education. ECit seeks to help individuals and communities obtain the tools they need to challenge inequalities in their lives and communities and to realize their political power as democratic citizens. It seeks to achieve this mission primarily through guided self-help, assisting participants in becoming savvy consumers of political information and encouraging them to develop a critical consciousness of their ability to change their social situation.  By so doing, ECit hopes to help communities in all nations create the conditions under which they can liberate themselves from the governance of “They, the people” and take their rightful place as co-governing members of “We the People.”   ECit believes that such self-empowerment by individuals and communities is essential to the continued existence of democracy.