The Student Voice Alliance Ambassador Program seeks to empower students with knowledge of education policy and provide them with structured opportunities to attend and contribute to policymaking organizations. The project aims to foster civic responsibility, amplify student voices, and improve decision-making in public education. 

The program will launch in Hawaiʻi in winter 2026, at the beginning of the 2026 Hawaiʻi Legislative Session.   Students from each of Hawaiʻi's complex areas are to be selected to participate in lobbying the state legislature. Ambassadors attend committee hearings where they can submit written or use verbal testimony to amplify student voices in the legislative process. Hawaiʻi students can apply today. 

The program will launch as a pilot in spring 2026 in North Carolina, with a maximum number of participants in each North Carolina State Board of Education region. Selected students are trained to speak up at their local school board meetings and eventually to lobby the General Assembly. Lessons learned from the pilot will guide statewide expansion over a 1-year timeline. Evaluation will include student surveys, meeting attendance logs, and board feedback.