Beverly Leon

Founder and CEO, Local Civics · 1 appearance on the record.

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Beverly Leon is the founder and CEO of Local Civics, an educational technology platform using gamified learning to develop civic engagement among K–12 students. Before founding Local Civics, she worked in equity capital markets at Morgan Stanley and played professional soccer in Europe for Sunderland A.F.C. Ladies and Stjarnan.

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3 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Leon: Only about one in four US adults can name all three government branches

“Civic knowledge is at an all time low. It's around one in four adults can name all three branches of the federal government.”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 12:14 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

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What they said7 Episodes1

Everything Beverly Leon said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Leon: Far too many voters lack skills to critically assess legislation

“For far too many people, that answer is no. They don't have the ability to actually Think critically about the impact of some of the, this legislation and policy, and that's a problem.”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 21:50 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Opinion

Leon: American democracy is not broken, but historically exclusive

“I do not think American democracy is broken. What I think has happened in American democracy, and if we take a look to our founding, It's been extremely exclusive. It has not been an inclusive democracy.”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 22:49 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Insight

Leon: Civic engagement does not spontaneously develop in adulthood without school foundations

“If you haven't been invited into spaces of power and community, You're not gonna wake up at 18 and suddenly start exploring those places of power, and one of those rights we get granted at 18 is the right to vote. If you can think back to when you were that ol…”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 12:35 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Assertion Supported

Leon: Only about one in four US adults can name all three government branches

“Civic knowledge is at an all time low. It's around one in four adults can name all three branches of the federal government.”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 12:14 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Leon: Local Civics bootstrapped to six-figure revenue without outside capital

“And, you know, in, in the past year, you know, we, we've been able to bootstrap our company through just a couple grants from Columbia, from different social venture funds to actually grow our revenues, you know, into the six figures. And that's something that…”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 18:24 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Assertion Supported

Leon: Only about 43% of 18-29 year olds voted in 2016

“So, 2016, you know, in particular for young people, only about 43% of my age cohort voted in the presidential election. So that's 18 to 29 year olds. 43% showed up for one of our largest, our presidential election.”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 11:19 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Disclosure

Leon: Local Civics operates on a per-student enterprise SaaS model

“We sell our technology on a per student basis. So it's really an enterprise SaaS model, but we've done the deep work to say, are we adding value to schools and the person that's paying us?”

Beverly Leon Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 18:04 How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics	Feb 18, 2021	17m

Beverly Leon

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