Albion High School student Mallory Kozody has been selected by the American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) to represent Orleans County at the 2024 ALA Empire Girls State program this summer.
The ALA vetted and interviewed three female students from Albion, Holley and Lyndonville before naming Kozody and MacKenzie Fiorito, from Kendall, as its Citizens. Ana Hess from Lyndonville has been named an alternate. This year’s event is scheduled for June 30 – July 6, 2024 at SUNY Brockport.
Classified as an “Action Program,” ALA Empire Girls State focuses on providing students with the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops highlighting the process of government, running campaigns, writing bills and other political activities. As part of the program, participants become citizens of a fictional 51st state where they are in charge of building and establishing their own government.
According to the ALA, the program “endeavor[s] in one week to instruct the young women attending about the privileges of the vote, how political parties are formed and how leaders are chosen and elected to fill the various offices – it serves to instill in them the duties, privileges, rights and responsibilities of the American Citizenship as they actually participate in the process.”
