Boozman Convenes 2025–2026 Congressional Youth Cabinet

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.
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The following students were selected to participate in the Congressional Youth Cabinet for the 2025-2026 school year:
1st Congressional District
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
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
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
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
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