Citizens & Scholars President to Co-Chair America 250 Committee

The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission announced today that prominent advocates for improving American civic life, Victoria Hughes of Millwood, Virginia and Rajiv Vinnakota, president of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, will serve as volunteer co-chairs of its Civics & Civic Engagement Task Force. In this role, Hughes and Vinnakota will provide counsel on nonpartisan, civic-minded America250 programming that furthers the Commission’s vision to actively engage all Americans in the multiyear commemoration.