{"id":22818,"date":"2017-12-29T21:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/youth-central-25th-alumni-profile-kat-svikhnushin\/"},"modified":"2018-01-09T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:50:26","slug":"youth-central-25th-alumni-profile-kat-svikhnushin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/youth-central-25th-alumni-profile-kat-svikhnushin\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Central Alumni Profile: Kat Svikhnushin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>To mark the 25th Anniversary milestone, Youth Central is profiling 25 of its alumni throughout the years.<\/h5>\n<p>Kat Svikhnushin believes there\u2019s no such thing as being too young to make an impact on your community.<br \/>\n \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/annualreport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/Kat2-e1417126087349-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22714 alignright\" \/><br \/>\n That\u2019s because, from 2011 to 2013, she was a member and a co-chair of the Mayor\u2019s Youth Council (MYC), a program of Youth Central that meets with the mayor, advises the municipal government on issues important to youth, and offers input to a variety of citywide organizations.<br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n \u201cSome youth think that they can\u2019t have the same impact as adults,\u201d she says. \u201cBut sometimes we\u2019re having an even bigger impact, because quite frankly, how many adults do you know who get to meet with Mayor Nenshi twice a year?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC_0051-small.jpg\" alt=\"Kat (far left) with the 2012-2013 Mayor's Youth Council\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Kat (far left) with the 2012-2013 Mayor\u2019s Youth Council<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of Kat\u2019s biggest accomplishments on the Mayor\u2019s Youth Council was being a part of the team that implemented the Mayor for a Day program, where youth across Calgary had the opportunity to write an essay detailing the three things they would do to make their community better. In the first year of the project, they received 293 submissions. Kat was part of the team who selected the recipient who spent a day with Mayor Nenshi, accompanying him to various City of Calgary meetings and voicing their opinion on topics important to them.<br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n <strong>\u201cPeople are so jealous when I tell them about MYC,\u201d <\/strong>Kat says.<strong> \u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018OMG, you got to talk to Mayor Nenshi? That\u2019s so cool!\u2019 And it really is. It\u2019s an amazing experience being there because you get so many different connections. You meet amazing youth from across the city, and you\u2019re surrounded by such smart people.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n A highlight for Kat was when Mayor Nenshi recognized her at an event and later tweeted her about it. She says it was the \u201ccoolest feeling ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kat recently completed a Liberal Arts degree at McGill University\u00a0<span>while working at Montreal travel startup Hopper and acting as one of the first partners for Canada\u2019s first student run venture capital firm, Front Row Ventures<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Kat&#8217;s advice for Youth Central volunteers? <strong>&#8220;Make sure to network &amp; keep in touch with adults you work with in your volunteer opportunities, they\u2019re invaluable resources for years afterwards and lifelong mentors!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 25th Anniversary milestone, Youth Central is profiling 25 of its alumni throughout the years. Kat Svikhnushin believes there\u2019s no such thing as being too young to make an impact on your community. \u00a0 That\u2019s because, from 2011 to 2013, she was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-profile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/DSC_0051-small.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthcentral.com\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}