How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Hey everyone, just a quick announcement before we start the show. So A lot of you may know how much I miss seeing all of you at the live in-person shows that we do around the country during normal times. So I am really excited to finally announce our first how I built this virtual event. It's happening next month with Jay Shetty. Jay is a best selling author, former monk, and wellness coach, and if you're searching for purpose, peace, and clarity in your life, or you're struggling to find meaning and motivation at work, you will not want to miss this conversation. Please join us. It's happening on Thursday

March eleventh, and anybody around the world can take part. For more information and tickets, Head to NPR presents. dot org. And I hope to see you there. Hey everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. Each week on Thursday we invite entrepreneurs and other business leaders to come onto the show live to talk about how they've been building resilience into their businesses over this past year.

And if you want to, you can join us every Thursday at nine Pacific noon eastern on the How I Built This Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube pages to hear the conversation and ask questions as well. And today my conversation with Beverly Leon, founder and CEO of Local Civics. Local Civics is an ed tech startup that's helping students build their civic and community leadership skills. Now, if you were just to take a guess at what Beverly did before launching this company, Professional soccer player might not be the first thing you'd think of, but that's exactly what she did. And we'll talk later on about how she got from there to founding local civics in 2018. So first of all, Beverly, how do you explain what what local civics is to someone who hasn't heard of it? What what does local civics do?

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