First Time Voter: Destiny Quick
This is the next in a series of voter profiles of Kids Voting youth leaders who are casting their first adult vote in the 2023 Mayor & City Council Elections. Check often at kidsvotingdurham.org/blog-1 for more new voter profiles throughout this election season!
Destiny Quick, with her aunt (and one of her civic voting models!) Djuana Langley, after her first vote during the 2023 Durham Mayor & City Council primary election.
When & where are you voting? On Election Day
What’s one thing you are excited about for your first vote? Knowing that I finally have a say, in the government and policies being made around me.
How has your experience with Kids Voting Durham prepared you for your first vote? KVD has prepared me and taught me to look into all the candidates and what causes they support to look at how they view the topics most important to me.
What issues are most important to you this election? Affordable Housing, safety for our young people, & better funding for our schools
What characteristics do you most value in a candidate? Honesty, transparency, & understanding
Anything else you’d like to tell us? KVD has taught me a lot about how local and national government works. KVD has also taught me about the power of youth voices.
Destiny helping to run a Kids Voting poll in the 2008 election
KVD Program Coordinator Carolyn Kreuger adds: “Destiny has been part of Kids Voting for as long I can remember — coming to KVD activities with her cousin & KVD board vice chair DeWarren Langley starting in early elementary. Since then Destiny has been a KVD voter, a volunteer running election sites, a youth leader at Candidate Forums, a summer Civic Leadership intern helping to create the KVD Election Guide, and even testifying before the Durham County Commissioners about Kids Voting! And KVD is only one of a number of civic efforts for Destiny, including being a Changed By Youth Ambassador with the Durham Office on Youth. I still remember Destiny at 12 as our youngest every youth facilitator at a Candidate Forum for the 2018 School Board Election. Destiny not only held her own with the other high school-aged moderators and youth participants, she often knew more about the election and process than anyone at the table. Destiny has always believed in the power she has an engaged citizen at any age. I feel so fortunate that she has been such an involved member of our Durham and Kids Voting communities and is now a full-fledged adult voter as well! ”
