Kid Governor® is a national award-winning civics program created by The Connecticut Democracy Center and led in Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA).
OICA was established to create a strong advocacy network that would provide a voice for the needs of children and youth in Oklahoma, particularly those in the state’s care and those growing up amid poverty, violence, abuse and neglect, disparities, or other situations that put their lives and future at risk. OICA has remained vigilant to that mission, fighting for policies that improve the lives of children and families and being their voice at the State Capitol and in the communities where they live and learn. For more information, please visit www.oica.org.
OICA published, Mighty Mia and Dyna-Bit Save Democracy.
Katelyn is an 11-year-old girl who was born in 2014 on November 11th in Paris, Texas, and was raised in a rural town called Valliant. Her favorite things to do include swimming, drawing, painting, and gaming. She goes to the Valliant Church of God on Wednesdays and Sundays. She has volunteered and attended an animal shelter to help take care of and comfort animals. In 5th grade she was part of a robotics group and helped her friends win a competition. In her term so far, she has managed to push animal abuse awareness and bring it to attention. She has been a part of several interviews to talk about preventing animal abuse. She has hosted a competition at her school to make posters on stopping animal abuse and bring awareness to it by hanging the best ones up in several businesses. Her goal is to stop animal abuse or at least bring awareness to it.