Congratulations to the Department winners of the 2010-2011 Voice of Democracy audio-essay competition. The theme was "Does My Generation Have a Role in America's Future?" Kelsey Woo, a senior at Harvard-Westlake School, Santa Ana, Calif., was named the 2011 Voice of Democracy 1st-place winner.

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ALABAMA

Asa Jackson Harris

ALASKA

Meghan McKinnell

ARIZONA

Mariah Franklin

ARKANSAS

Jordan Reed

CALIFORNIA

Kelsey Woo

COLORADO

Shane Baumgardner

CONNECTICUT

Emily Larson

DELAWARE

Jonathan Winston

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Joel Shirey

EUROPE

Chloe Rasic

FLORIDA

Amelia Breitling

GEORGIA

Rachel Quillin

HAWAII

Elise Stern

IDAHO

Rebecca Woody

ILLINOIS

Chelsea Carter

INDIANA

Megan Carpenter

IOWA

Melanie Slattery

KANSAS

Theresa Schafer

KENTUCKY

Robert Spears

LATIN AMERICA/
CARIBBEAN

Stefan Crespo

LOUISIANA

Morgan Laurent

MAINE

Tonya Godin

MARYLAND

Sadie Lockhart

MASSACHUSETTS

Anne Whitehouse

MICHIGAN

Sarah Barker

MINNESOTA

Benjamin Bogard

MISSISSIPPI

Daulton Newman

MISSOURI

Megan West

MONTANA

Cassia Wagner

NEBRASKA

Hannah Bauer

NEVADA

Heidi Arndt

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Sonia Iosim

NEW JERSEY

John Michael Colon

NEW MEXICO

Brandon Martinez

NEW YORK

Nicholas Taylor

NORTH CAROLINA

Logan Beyer

NORTH DAKOTA

Ryan Christianson

OHIO

Amanda Chow

OKLAHOMA

Rebecca Schoeb

OREGON

Rachel Lynn Aldrich

PACIFIC AREAS

Joel Pajarin

PENNSYLVANIA

Teresa Morin

RHODE ISLAND

Johanna Dombrowski

SOUTH CAROLINA

Rebecca Zimmerman

SOUTH DAKOTA

Morgan Hanzlik

TENNESSEE

Lindsey Perkins

TEXAS

Taylor Levy

UTAH

Skyler Tolman

VERMONT

Kaitlyn Boudah

VIRGINIA

Hailey Sadler

WASHINGTON

Sarah Olive-McStay

WEST VIRGINIA

Jessica Starkey

WISCONSIN

Leanna Leverich

WYOMING

Jerit DeGering