Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) Academy

This project was created to engage youth in Beloved Community’s Equity in Schools project, funded by a $150,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

In this project, I designed and facilitated a 4-week summer program for 20 New Orleans high school students ages 14-18. Summer programming focused on supporting, educating, inspiring, and cultivating the skills necessary for New Orleans youth to leverage the political power of their collective voices to advocate for social change.

Throughout the summer institute experience, youth participated in workshops, activities, field trips and more designed to build a skill set for creating positive change in their communities.