Roughly 121 million children worldwide do not attend school according to the Global Campaign for Education.

As a junior in the University of Nevada, Reno's College of Education, Crystal Carter hopes to bring about change to reduce this number. She attended the U.S. chapter of the Global Campaign for Education's Youth Advocacy Training this summer in Washington, D.C.

"I eventually want to work with nonprofits that work to provide education in other countries," Carter said.

The Youth Advocacy Training is a biannual training designed to equip students and young professionals with information about providing education for all and how they can share this information in their communities.

During the training, Carter met with members of Congress and GCE-US coalition members about how to advocate for equal access to quality education.

Ashley Wilson, the communications and youth engagement director for GCE-US, said that the participants were chosen based on their passion about the issue of providing education for all.

"Crystal was able to share in her application how education is important in her life," Wilson said. "And she showed her passion for giving others the access to a good education."

Out of the 20 other participants selected for the training, Carter was the first student from the University to attend.

As a member of the University of Nevada Education Association, Carter had already been invested in her passion for providing access to education. But after attending the advocacy training, she wants to share the power of her investment with others.

"The University is great, they do a lot of outreach programs with high schoolers," Carter said. "But those are people who are already thinking about college, so the University could put more effort into outreach programs for much younger kids."

Carter would like to hold workshops and create programs to help University students and community members become informed about how they can help give access to education worldwide. She said that getting people invested in advocating for education for the long term is difficult since results are not seen instantly. Carter said that this long-term investment is key in helping reduce the number of children who do not attend school.

"There are more ways to help than people may think," Carter said. "Figure out what you want to do to make change and then do it."

For more information about the training program, visit: http://campaignforeducationusa.org/pages/student-advocacy-training.