“Before… YLC, I knew the name of my local cooperative and I knew that they provided electricity, but I didn’t really understand the business model behind it; I didn’t understand that it was member-owned or that it was a community. When I started to get into the Youth Leadership Congress and going to Youth Tour and being the Wisconsin representative, that’s when I started to see the impact that these small little cooperatives had on their individual communities.” Tessa Otto, motivational speaker and former Wisconsin Youth Representative