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Adam Fletcher

Biography

Adam Fletcher is the co-founder and Executive Director of CommonAction, the only national nonprofit organization in the United States focused on engaging students throughout education. He has traveled across the country and throughout Canada, as well as South America and Europe, speaking to thousands of youth and adults about the power of youth voice, youth/adult partnerships and meaningful student involvement.

Working directly with almost 200 K-12 schools and education agencies, including training some 10,000 students and adults, and traveling to almost every state in the U.S., Adam has become a recognized national expert on student voice, youth engagement and community youth engagement.

Adam's work has been mentioned in books by Henry Giroux, and has been featured in newspapers across the United States, including the St. Louis Dispatch, YES! Magazine, and the Lincoln (NE) Journal-Star.

Adam is a graduate of The Evergreen State College. In 2000, his interest in youth development and education led him to a fellowship program coordinated by the Points of Light Foundation, in which he worked at the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Within a year he was hired as the State's first student engagement specialist, and was working with schools across Washington. In 2001 Adam founded The Freechild Project, and after leaving the agency in 2003, he established SoundOut.

After writing the Meaningful Student Involvement series and the Firestarter Youth Empowerment Curriculum, Adam worked with a group of local community supporters to found CommonAction in Olympia, Washington. Since then he has directed and consulted on student voice projects in Seattle, Tampa, Boston and across New York State.