Join KidCitizen at My Wish for U.S. and share your wish for America's future.

What’s your wish for America’s future?

History is unfolding all around us, and young people are taking the lead in shaping the future of the nation we live in. A new initiative invites your voice to be heard: My Wish For U.S., a project by Made By Us, a coalition of the nation’s leading history and civics institutions.

Here’s a historical wish from Patsy Mink, the first U.S. Congresswoman of color:

"We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experience...to make sure that others do not have to suffer the same discrimination."

Congresswoman Patsy Mink, of Hawaii

 You can learn more about Patsy Mink in the KidCitizen Episode Welcome to Congress.

Share your vision on social media

Tag @historymadebyus and #MyWishForUS -- and tag in a few friends to participate, too. You can even tweet your wish to your local representative, right from the website.

Explore the data

After you’ve shared your wish, you can explore wishes across the nation by location, demographics and topics - even historical wishes. 

It doesn’t stop at a wish

Made By Us is just getting started in creating new ways for you to use history to power the future. One great place to start: to begin to turn your wish into action, register for Commence 2030 on Saturday, June 27, an event for and by Gen Zers to "commence" a brighter future for American democracy. Our friends at Civics Unplugged will host this event to  honor dozens of Gen Zers for extraordinary public service work and will feature speeches from world leaders such as Senator Cory Booker, Andrew Yang, Audrey Tang (the Digital Minister of Taiwan), and Kathy Roth-Douquet (the founder of Blue Star Families, the largest military families network). Register.

We look forward to seeing you flex your civic muscles and contribute your vision for our shared future.

As we reckon with our past, examine our present and consider our role in our future, what do we want the future of the United States to look like? My Wish For U.S. asks all of us to share in imagining the next 250 years of U.S. history. By envisioning the future we want, we can start to build it.