… knowing that Courtney was a light.

Courtney was the first person in Youth and Government to truly inspire me to try to be bigger than myself, and I felt cool, like I had an in with a celebrity because he was in our sister delegation. He has continued to inspire me in life after Y&G, and his construction of the LEGO Taj Mahal made me smile everyday in the first couple weeks of quarantine. I wish peace and love to his family and grieve with them in this dark time, knowing that Courtney was a light.

— Natalie Shaffer