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Boozman Convenes 2025–2026 Congressional Youth Cabinet
Annual Initiative Aims to Encourage Civic Interest, Engagement
Nov 14 2025
Congressional Youth Cabinet participants in Little Rock.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) recently launched the ninth year of his Congressional Youth Cabinet at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock. This year, 80 accomplished participants were selected from public, private, charter and homeschools across The Natural State for their demonstrated community leadership and involvement, representing some of Arkansas’s best and brightest students.
“I was pleased to welcome the next generation of our state’s leaders to this year’s Congressional Youth Cabinet where they will explore legislative solutions to issues that interest them and meet peers who share their enthusiasm for civic engagement and the democratic process,” said Boozman. “Their excitement for this initiative is encouraging and I know they will collaborate eagerly while working to identify their policy priorities, conduct impressive research and present their findings and ideas later this school year.”
Boozman and his office designed the Congressional Youth Cabinet as a nonpartisan, civics-based program to offer students a first-hand experience with the democratic process and the opportunity to understand how public policy impacts them, their families and their communities. The students will attend meetings throughout the school year and work in teams to select and then research national issues that they will present policy recommendations on to the senator and his staff the following spring.
Click here for more photos and videos from the CYC kick-off.
The following students were selected to participate in the Congressional Youth Cabinet for the 2025-2026 school year:
1st Congressional District
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Aaliyah James – Cabot High School Aleksander Westbrook – Cabot High School Alexis Gonzalez – Marion High School Ashland Rae Bailey – Cabot High School Aubrey Tidwell – Westside Consolidated School District Avery Johnson – Cross County High School Cale Carbaugh – Paragould High School Christopher Broadwell – Cabot High School Dawson Green – Bergman High School Mary Jansen – Pocahontas High School
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Jonathan Stracener – Cabot High School Jose Acosta – Cabot High School Olivia Keeter – Valley Springs High School Taylor Nichols – Walnut Ridge High School Trinity Isbell – Nettleton High School Tyler Carver – Valley View High School W. Slater Anderson – Lonoke High School Zoei Carter – Cabot High School Ariadna Gonzalez – Marion High School Donna Mckenzie – Cross County High School |
2nd Congressional District
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Adiel Zohar – Little Rock Christian Academy Aaliyah Fairmon – North Little Rock High School Addison Varisco – Mount Saint Mary Academy Alice Zawada – Episcopal Collegiate School Amelia Feldman – LISA Academy North Middle-High School Areej Shuja – Pulaski Academy Bennet Chen – Little Rock Central High School Bethany Patino – LISA Academy West High School Garrett Duncan – Cutter Morning Star High School Isabelle Titus – Maumelle Charter High School |
Hannah Farah – LISA Academy West High School Jenna Pierce – Maumelle Charter High School Kayla Lovell – Glen Rose High School Kiera Janneke – St. Joseph High School Laney Hambrick-Phillips – Beebe High School London Patterson – Little Rock Christian Academy Mallory Smith – West Side High School (Cleburne County) Oran Wright – Quitman High School Walter Wenger – North Little Rock High School Amber Hartsfield – Wonderview High School |
3rd Congressional District
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Ann Feutcha – Bentonville West High School Arjun Achanta – Bentonville High School Caden Cox – Har-Ber High School Devin Vilayvanh – Northside High School Elizabeth Siwiec – Rogers Heritage High School Ireland Malone – Bentonville High School Katelyn Lovelady – Haas Hall Academy Rogers Lukas Klaus – Fayetteville High School Violet Stacey – Thaden School Valerie Fernandez-Perez – Green Forest High School |
Lydia Brown – Brown Homeschool Meerab Kahloon – Siloam Springs High School Paige Faldon – Southside High School Pit Caudle – West Fork High School Rebekah Hale – Northside High School Rowynn Fahey – Don Tyson School of Innovation Sofia Montes – Thaden School Srileka Karthikeyan – Bentonville High School Allie Kaelin – Lavaca High School Jesus Vasquez – Northside High School |
4th Congressional District
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Adelynn Woolsey – Ozark High School Belle Groomes – Poyen High School David Robertson – Fountain Lake High School Donovan Hurtarte – Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts Ethan Shaffett – Fountain Lake High School Eva Nell Windle – Lakeside High School Faith Grim – Gospel Light Christian School Hayden Hudson – Jasper High School Jayden Pennington – West Side Christian School Kyan Lane Baynes – Dover High School Zander Schoultz – Lakeside High School |
Lillian Baker – Sheridan High School Marleigh Futrell – Lake Hamilton High School Meadow Sanders – Fountain Lake High School Mia Hamilton – Dover High School Mikale McBroom – De Queen High School Nathalie Lagula – Lakeside High School Paris Goodman – Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts Rowan Bordelon – Lakeside High School Tucker Shaw – Ozark High School |