• What does it mean to be an American?

  • Home
  • About the Project
    • My Keys to Being a Good Citizen
    • Existing Ideas on Citizenship
    • The State of Citizenship
  • Interviews
  • Reflections
  • Being Better Citizens
    • Start Small, Engage Others
    • Know Your Representatives
    • Leave Your Bubble
    • Stay Informed
  • Your Ideas
  • The Route
  • Contact
August 25, 2017

“As long as you’re doing what you need to do, it doesn’t matter if you were born here”

  • Audio
  • Quotes
https://citizensstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Taylor.wav
American, Community, Philadelphia, Quote
Previous post
Next post

Leave a Comment or Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

*

About the Blog

This blog follows my trip across the country to talk to people about what being an American means.

About the Author

About Me

My name is Jamie Piltch, and I am a writer from just outside Philadelphia. I am a contributing op-ed writer for the Boston Globe and a contributor to The GroundTruth Project. I have appeared on Sirius XM's The Michael Smerconish Show and been the subject of interviews in the Bowling Green Independent, The Harvard Crimson, and the Patch Waukesha. In both my writing and speaking, I focus on the question that's at the core of this project: what does it mean to be a good citizen?

Categories

  • Analysis
  • Audio
  • Education
  • Great Citizenship
  • History
  • Interviews
  • National Trends
  • Political Parties
  • Quotes
  • Reflections
  • Uncategorized

Archive

  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017

Categories

  • Analysis
  • Audio
  • Education
  • Great Citizenship
  • History
  • Interviews
  • National Trends
  • Political Parties
  • Quotes
  • Reflections
  • Uncategorized

Posts

Hamilton and the “Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

The Play A few weeks ago, I had the fortune of seeing Hamilton on Broadway. Much has been written about the show’s brilliance –...

Universities and Civic Life

Today, I published an article for the Washington Post Made by History section on the history of campus conflicts (see it here). Because of...

Home

After eleven weeks on the road, 191 interviews, and twenty-five states, I returned home Tuesday evening. Opening the gate to my house, seeing my...

Designed by WPlook Studio