Amanda Ussak is a Civic Designer for Montgomery County, Maryland. Amanda is a fellow alumni of the YMCA CE programs and part of the alumni staff for the Y’s High School Model UN conference. She previously served as the director of international programs at Catholics for Choice, was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia and worked for the U.S. State Department. In this episode, we discuss how to improve local government through human-centred design and ways to create opportunities for yourself as a young person.