Download PDF of Complete list of Workshops, Site Visits and Panels (in schedule order)

A closer look at how power maintains power  

Global Action Project 

Are you curious about how dominant power maintains power? Come to this interactive and youth-friendly workshop where youth and staff from Global Action Project break down the use of force and ideologies to create consent for oppressive policies and practices through media. We end with a strategy session on how to make sure that our work is in the interest of liberation.

An Eye on Third Ward

*Site Visit*

Take a tour through one of the most beloved African American communities in the Houston area. From its well preserved beautiful brick homes to Jack Yates High School, the city’s second oldest African American high school, we love Third Ward and this tour will show you why. Third Ward is home to many historic sites that include Emancipation Park, the Ensemble Theater, and the Buffalo Soldiers Museum—just a few of the sites that will be featured on the tour. You can’t leave Houston without visiting Third Ward, Texas.

Anti-bullying and Safer Schools: What Can I Do?

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Join facilitators from the Dallas Chapter of GLSEN to explore the safe schools movement. Learn about faculty and student trainings and gay straight alliances. GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. This multi-media presentation includes practical strategies for starting a gay straight alliance and addressing bullying and harassment in school.   

Arne Duncan's American Education

Julian High School, Kelly High School, Priestley High School, Robeson High School   

Join student activists as we demonstrate the impact of educational reform policies on Chicago and New Orleans classrooms through interactive simulation, share our own organizing experiences at the front lines in fighting these reforms, and lead discussion on what the future may hold for American education. We hope that our workshop will be a catalyst spurring a national student social justice movement.    

Art and Activism Tour

*Site Visit*

Located in the heart of Houston's historic Third Ward, Project Row Houses and SHAPE Center are two examples of community development and activism in action. On this site visit, see the original Project Row Houses, a series of "shotgun" style houses that typify Houston architecture in the city's earliest times. These houses have been transformed into artist-in-residence galleries. SHAPE Center has a 40-year history in Houston's Third Ward as a central organizing force around the particular issues of police brutality, death sentence injustice, intergenerational wisdom preservation and the development of community consciousness in Houston's youth.

BorderLands/La Frontera Literature Study: Engaging K-12 Students with Racism, Community, and Local Issues

Austin Social Justice Teacher Inquiry Group

Do Borders protect? Do Borders divide?
Our journey across borders is diverse and wide.
Take a risk and join our border-crossing ride.
We will share our literature units, ideas, and tons of imagination.
This workshop covers a lot, from racism, identity, language, community-building and immigration.
Si se puede!
Is what we teachers say
because we cross borders every day.

Catch Us If You Can: Teaching for Social Justice Despite the Odds

New York University Social Justice Education Critical Inquiry Project   

How can teachers center social justice when up against mandated curricula and test-crazed environments?  Our Social Justice Critical Inquiry Group at New York University will present on the ways we support one another in designing, implementing, and assessing social justice curricula in a variety of K-8 classrooms.  In this panel we will share multimedia units demonstrating students engaging in social action.  

Connecting the Dots with Current-Events: Activism Education Meets the Basics    

IndyKids

Do you want to talk about social justice issues in your classroom, but are afraid that you won’t have time to cover the basics? IndyKids, a progressive current-events newspaper for kids, will present innovative ideas from New York City public school teachers on how to integrate radical ideas into a curriculum that teaches reading, writing and literacy.  

Connect the Dots...Healing the Links between Hip Hop and Domestic Violence   

Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW)

Love music. Love each other. The Connect the Dots workshop is an interactive dialogue exposing the relationships between hip hop music's glorification of the prison culture and violence against women of color by their intimate partners. Beyond vilification of the art form, this workshop challenges participants to use this same music as a tool for healing.    

Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Action    

Sister Outsider Entertainment

This workshop introduces a 30+ lesson curriculum based on three feminist hip hop novels that educators can use to spark discussion of social justice issues and promote activism. The creators will train participants in hip-hop pedagogy, read excerpts of their novels and then demonstrate a sample lesson based on those excerpts. Q&A will follow.  

Creating a Safe Space with Queer & Questioning Youth    

Global Kids

This workshop explores the role that young people and educators can play in providing support for queer and questioning youth and their allies in schools and organizations.  What does safe space look like for youth of color exploring queer identity? Youth facilitators will share strategies for starting anti-bias campaigns in individual schools and creating city-wide coalitions around homophobia and heterosexism. 

Creating Beautiful and Exceptional Minds: Medical Nutrition at its Best    

Iyabo Alabi-Isama M.D., Women Initiatives Now Inc.

Foods we ingest, including medications, are what cells in the human body use to sustain our physical and mental well being. Neuronal cells (brain cells) must be fed the best diets in order to receive, process and generate information. This presentation will focus on ways we can improve our diet in order to maximize our capacity to free our minds and consequently our people.   

Dancing Towards Social Justice: Culture, Health, and Female Empowerment through Tribal Belly Dance   

Heather Woodley, City University of New York Graduate Center

(This workshop is for women and girls only.)

Learn, empower and shake what your mama gave you!  This high-energy workshop of Raqs Sharqi/belly dance will weave in discussion of Arab language, diversity, and culture, female health, current issues of social justice, and ways to incorporate this into the class room.  This workshop is geared towards those without dance background, but will be differentiated for those with experience. 

Division Without and Division Within:  How the Model Minority Doesn't Add Up    

Sticky Rice Project

How does the model minority myth affect the way we think about ourselves and others?  In this interactive workshop, we examine the roots of the myth, study how statistical manipulation often creates division amongst communities of color, discuss the rarely heard issues Asian American students face today, and explore how this toxic myth causes division within the Asian American community.   

Education and Gentrification

Philadelphia Student Union  

Cities across the country are changing. But into what? And at who's expense? Learn from members of the Philadelphia Student Union about the merging issues of gentrification and education reform.  

Educational Bill of Rights   

Chicago Youth Initiating Change (CYIC)

Actively engage with members of CYIC who are inspiring students and teachers to take action for social justice! Learn about creating an annual Social Justice Student Expo, speaking at school board meetings against gentrified school closings, designing and implementing a Social Justice 101 class, and more while helping us create a national Student Bill of Rights. Come take the next step towards student power!   

End Zero Tolerance in Public Schools   

People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER)

Learn how to effectively and creatively organize against zero tolerance policies in your community using fun activities including cultural arts such as drama, painting, music, poetry, photography and video.  Play a "Ban Zero Tolerance in Schools" Jeapordy Game and take back important information to your school and community.  Hosted by PODER's Young Scholars for Justice.

Environmental Justice Toxic Tour

*Site Visit*

Take a tour of the East End of Houston and see first hand how schools and chemical plants sit side-by-side, especially in black and Latino communities. We will highlight the impact of inadequate zoning laws and their impact on residential communities. Learn more about the environmental justice work of Juan Parras and TEJas (Texas Environmental Justice), especially as it relates to the construction of schools in Texas.

Face Movement    

HYPE and Brown Berets of Salt Lake City

Uniting people by the struggles they face to challenge oppression, sexism, racism, borders and more! In this workshop we will work on coalition building between divided communities, connecting ourselves beyond borders, beyond racial divides, beyond all that does and potentially can separate our communities. Face Movement uniting people by the similarity of the struggles we face.     

Faith-based Organizing for Educational Justice   

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

Workshop participants will work in small groups and use art to express their experiences in schools. They will identify problems in the school system, and learn the role faith plays in YMPJ campaign to organize around these problems. The workshop will focus specifically on the problem of the "School-to-Prison Pipeline" and how to create "Restorative Justice" programs in schools.     

Faith-rooted Organizing/Young Religious Leaders' Project   

Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice of California (CLUE-CA)

This workshop will introduce participants to the our  original organizing model which builds off of the civil rights movement, Gandhi and liberation theologies to enable people of faith to offer their unique contribution to larger movements for social justice. CLUE-CA staff and a leader from the Young Religious Leaders’ project will share concepts and exercises from the model. 

Fractal Life: An Art and Science Platform for Community Learning   

Patrick Harang, Child Care Council of Greater Houston

Learn to construct fractal structures highlighting significant relationships among art, science, and community learning. Open to anyone who works with youth and seeking to present math and science concepts in an artistic creative way. Create Sierpinki Triangles, Koch Snowflakes, and "fractal life" projects.  

Free Minds Spoken Word Explosion    

Marcel Murphy, Ron Horne, Sheila Siobhan

This workshop will consist of a spoken word demonstration, two writing exercises and a youth open mic.  The Exquisite Corpse is a warm up exercise, followed by another exercise based loosely on the conference themes. An open mic will follow allowing participants to share their words and get pointers and encouragement on their writing and performance.   

Hip Hop as a tool for Liberation 

TRUE Skool 

This talk and discussion will cover the foundation of Hip Hop culture and its uses in education and community/youth organizing. Hear about real sustainable solutions using the elements of Hip Hop and receive lesson plans showing its potential in the classroom. Youth will display posters highlighting the role of Hip Hop as a tool for educational liberation.

(Il)legitimate Knowledge: Research for Liberation in, and in Spite of, Elite Institutions

Like many institutions of higher education, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is steeped in traditions that privilege mainstream, white, patriarchal, heteronormative, ruling class notions of "legitimate" knowledge, work and research. The presenters--all HGSE doctoral students committed to education for liberation--will explore the constant struggles and moments of hope related to their experiences navigating this challenging institutional context.   

It is Not what it is

Youth Roots, Oakland Leaf

How many times have you heard the saying, “It is what it is,” where a situation or condition is accepted as fitting within the normal order of things? “It is NOT what it is” is about flippin the script on that.  It is a critical, interactive, multi-media, intertextual workshop led by East Oakland, California high school youth in a critical media and consciousness raising program called Youth Roots. 

Jackin' For Beats: Who Stole Hip Hop and How Do We Take It Back?

Hip Hop Detoxx

Hip Hop music and culture have played a huge role in the past in the struggle for freedom, justice and equality. This panel will discuss how Hip Hop was taken off that course and what can be done today to reclaim and restart the legacy of Hip Hop's Golden Era. Features legendary rappers as well as experts in other areas of the music industry.

Know Your Rights Because Your School Administrator Probably Doesn’t    

Rights, Equality and Democracy for Students (R.E.D.S.)

Military recruitment is always present in our schools. Many students are constantly pressured by recruitment ploys at home and school. This workshop will present many of the strategies and techniques that the high school student-led organization REDS used at their school, including military opt-out forms, knowing your rights, and how to deal with resistant school administrations.

Lead, Act, Change—Youth Activism in the Curriculum   

Academy for Math, Science and Engineering and Boston Community Leadership Academy

Can U.S. Civics or History courses move beyond a textbook to engage student in issues and solutions? Students from Boston and Salt Lake City will share their participatory action research projects developed in response to the concerns they identified in their respective communities. Students will engage panel participants in a conversation about youth activism and social change within the high school setting.

Lessons from the Life of Youth in Action    

Youth in Action

Youth leaders use new media and popular education to teach their peers and community about important issues through innovative programming. Here's your chance to meet these youth and find out what it really means to be youth led. Learn about their challenges, transitions, what the roles are for adults in this picture and stories of their success.     

Let’s Build a National Youth-led Movement!   

Facilitators TBA

In this space youth will explore the idea of creating a national youth-led movement building and networking initiative. Come and share your ideas and vision about how to create a national youth network through which young people from all over the country can continue to work together, share resources, trainings, and best practices, organize youth conferences and join forces to build a movement for justice!

Leveraging Student Voices for Social Justice

Candace Cheatham (Simmons College), Leonard Gabay (CUNY Graduate Center), Rachel Martin (Stockton College of New Jersey)  

While much of the traditional research around education and equity relies on the voices of adult experts, there is considerable less that leverages the voices of the students themselves. Leveraging student voice is important given that students themselves are the consumers of the education and schooling directed at them. This panel will highlight research that brings students’ voices and understanding to the forefront of understanding issues ranging from the juvenile “justice” system, hip-hop consumption, and how students make sense of required coursework on multiculturalism.  

Media Literacy as a Tool for Creating Culturally Responsible Messages  

Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, Media Advocates for Prevention Program

Youth Peer Advocates and adult staff will demonstrate how to create easily disseminated media messages, including culturally responsible characters, which engage youth through media literacy while developing youth leadership. The workshop will include film screenings, media deconstruction activities, and the creation of a film teaching tool around these issues.   

Message to Transformative Teachers: The Process and Potential of a Culturally Empowering Pedagogy   

Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco

From this workshop, K - 12 teachers will come out with a better understanding of how to help students critically make sense of their day-to-day reality, think through their liberation and oppression, and engage academic work that is connected to the pressing needs of their community.   

Models for Academic Success in a Social Justice Framework  

Khadigah Alasry (Muslim American Society-Youth Division),, Peter Heinze and Sheila Belt (South Orange-Maplewood United for Academic Excellence), Ammerah Saidi (Harvard Graduate School of Education)  

While there are mountains of research about why students from oppressed or marginalized populations fail, there is significantly less work around what helps these students succeed.  Furthermore, some of the research on models for success rely on paradigms that frame such students as extreme outliers or exceptions to the rule.  The presenters in this panel will illuminate models and frameworks that individual students, policy-makers, and community organizers utilize to dramatically increase the academic engagement of whole groups students through helping student directly analyze and de-construct the hegemonic forces that serve as barriers to their success.    

More than MySpace, Blogging and Mapping: Youth (Re)Working Activism and Community Building   

Mestizo Arts & Activism

How can participatory action research and media be used to provoke action and represent community? The Mestizo Arts & Activism youth research team will facilitate a interactive hands-on workshop that demonstrates how three PAR projects utilized MySpace, blogging, texting, and GIS technology to outreach and map their communities' concerns: Immigration and Education; Stereotypes and Immigrant Communities; Places that Matter.

Neo-Liberalism and Education for Liberation    

Pauline Lipman (University of Illinois at Chicago, Howard Machtinger and William Watkins (University of Illinois at Chicago)

This panel will look how neo-liberalism, with its privileging of free-market corporate capitalism, is impacting the educational policy and school reform on both local and national levels.  More specifically, the panel will look at how neo-liberalist educational policies serve as challenges to the education for liberation agendas, and we can conceptualize alternatives and countermeasures to the wave of neo-liberalist educational policies.     

No-L.E.D.G.E. of Self: How S.E.X. and heART are Used to Unveil Life’s Mysteries and Stimulate the Economy 

Asar Imhotep, Houston Ministry of Culture

In this workshop we will reveal how having No-L.E.D.G.E. of Self enables humans to fight foolishness and stimulate their economies. By mining various African wisdom traditions, we have discovered that S.E.X. and the heART’s are the strategies sages utilize to reach perfection and meet the one thousand and one challenges of life. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” —Einstein  

Pedacacy on Networking   

Baltimore Algebra Project

The Baltimore Algebra Project has been networking with groups, individuals, and organizations all across the nation and locally. Through years of organizing our leaders discovered the most important element of networking which is the power of intimate relationships. Using the National Algebra Project’s pedagogical methods and the Baltimore Algebra Project’s organizing experience, we will share a method of building strong networks nationally.    

Polling for Justice! Youth Participatory Action Research on Health, Education and Criminal Justice in New York City   

City University of New York Graduate Center

We are the Polling for Justice project, a research group of young people and adults doing research on our daily lives in order to ignite action, inspire policy reform and change the face of New York City. Come join us in a discussion about the results of our recent city-wide survey on youth experience of health, education and criminal justice.    

Pop, Lock, and Drop It—Popular Education By and For Street Based Youth   

Young Women's Empowerment Project (YWEP)

Popular Education to break down the issues, lock the knowledge in your mind and drop the knowledge in your hood. YWEP presents their popular education work with street based youth impacted by the sex trade and street economies.  This skill building workshop offers training for youth to take on leadership and develop their own political education curriculum.   

Power to the Students! Student Voice in Transforming Schools & Education Systems  

Youth in Focus

How can students take leadership in transforming education systems?  The Town Researchers, a team of students from Oakland, California, will share three years of work in the Oakland Unified School District to increase student voice in school improvement, offer youth-led participatory action research tools, and dialogue about students taking back their education in this multimedia and participatory workshop.    

Putting the Responsibility Where It Belongs: Why the Achievement Gap Framework Won’t Reduce Racial Inequity and How We Can Use It to Organize Our Communities!    

Chela Delgado and MK Nguyen

This workshop is focused on how the language of “achievement gap” has created policies that hurt students of color and hide some of the underlying causes of educational inequity.  We will explore to work that Coleman's youth and parent groups, Youth Making A Change (YMAC) and Parents Making a Change (PMAC) are doing to expand the concept of the achievement gap to, and use a racial justice framework to organize around all issues that impact students of color in urban schools.    

Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics    

Little Village/Greater Lawndale School for Social Justice

Workshop facilitators (students from a social justice high school in Chicago who graduated this June) will teach participants social justice mathematics that the students themselves studied, demonstrating how they learned to "read and write the world" with mathematics They will help participants understand how they can develop and teach social justice curriculum (in mathematics and other disciplines) based on students’ lives and experiences.

Science Education for Liberation   

Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy

We created science – it’s time for us to take it back. Your science class should teach you how to improve your health and protect your community, not just to pass a test. In this workshop, we will examine research looking at stereotypes and science, explore examples of teaching styles and experiments, and seek ways to make science literacy relevant and accessible in our schools and communities.

Sister Museum: A Virtual Tour of Sister Sol    

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol

This multimedia workshop will explore the strategies and lessons learned from Sister Sol, a Rites of Passage program for young Black and Latina women. During the workshop, we will: 1) screen a film and share overview of Sister Sol, 2) lead participants through our Sister Museum activity, 3) share strategies and personal testimonies, and 4) provide a space for participants to share lessons around doing similar work.   

Students Engaged in Education for Liberation 

Mary Candace Full (UC Berkeley), Jay Gillen (Baltimore Algebra Project), Uma Majmudar 

This panel will bring to light the ways in which youth serve as active agents in an Education for Liberation framework.  From the Bay Area, to Baltimore, to the Bay of Bengal, the presenters in this panel will illustrate varying models to empower youth.  More specifically the presenters will elaborate on how students helped their city develop useful youth development policies, on how certain schools in India instill the principles of Education for Liberation into their students’ psyche, and how students in California benefited from programs implementing a Participatory Action Research (PAR) framework. 

The Pipeline Project: Go to Class and Learn How to Raise Hell!   

Community Learning Project

Creating pathways from high schools into college into social justice careers, the Community Learning Partnership is designing degree programs in a new field of study called Community Change. Take away a "toolkit" for bringing these college degree programs to your high school or university, and help build a leadership pipeline for justice. Particularly of interest to teachers, professors, young people and organizers!

The Power Behind the Strategy: Youth Organizing 101  

Hyde Square Task Force and Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)

This workshop will give participants an introduction to youth organizing, power analysis mapping and the process of developing a campaign strategy. Organizers from Hyde Square Task Force in Boston and STOP in Chicago will illustrate their techniques using recent campaigns around education, tenants’ rights and criminal justice. Participants will leave this workshop with concrete tools for developing powerful campaign strategies around their own issues.   

Those Who Control the Math Control the Outcome: Using Mathematics as a Lens for Understanding and Empowerment    

Brad Kohl and Ryan Schultz, Breck School

MATH=TRUTH, right? But whose truth?  Do you want to manipulate the system or be manipulated by it?  Contribute your perspective to a variety of student social justice math projects and generate ideas on how to work math into your agenda.  Participate in hands-on activities and leave believing that the person who controls the math controls the outcome – and that person is you!  

Toward a Research Agenda--Informing Practice with Data    

Pauline Lipman, Howard Machtinger, Cassandra McKay, Charles Payne and Bree Picower

This session aims to develop a series of research agendas related to Education for Liberation. We will begin with a discussion of four areas of current research--the neo-liberal agenda, the psychology of oppression, the impact of liberatory education and teacher education for social justice. Then we will brainstorm future collaborations for researchers in these areas.   

Una Reflexión de Nosotros (A Reflection of Us): The East End 

*Site Visit*

How would you like to visit two of Houston’s oldest Hispanic neighborhoods? Houston’s East End community has had a profound impact on Houston’s Latino community. Latinos make up more than half its residents, and the area includes two of Houston’s oldest Hispanic neighborhoods, Magnolia Park and Second Ward. The East End tour will consist of  The Ripley House, Harrisburg, Iglesia de Virgen de Guadalupe (the first Catholic Church in Texas), the Talento Bilingual of Houston and other sites that make the culture of the East End. We invite you to take a peek into the richness of our city.

Understanding Adultism as a Form of Oppression    

Chicago Freedom School

Adultism is a system of oppression that privileges adults and promotes the belief that adults are better than youth. This workshop will explore how adultism within our personal and professional lives creates barriers between youth and adults. We will deconstruct this oppression, explore how we can change the way youth are seen and treated by adults, and provide tools for creating better intergenerational relationships.  

Uniting Communities Through Art

Hunter High School, Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts and University of Utah  

This workshop is based on the work of two Salt Lake City programs that use art as a way to inform and portray the experiences of underrepresented communities. We will explore examples of our work, which include community mural-making and performance art as a tool for social change, while also engaging audience members in hands-on activities that will produce and document activism in action.    

Using Digital Storytelling and Participatory Action Research (PAR) for Liberation: The Case of a Classroom Collective    

University of North Texas and Denton High School

In this panel discussion, high school youth will show their digital stories and PAR projects, share their reflections about the creation of a high school classroom youth collective (Youth Speak) and discuss how media, storytelling, and research transformed the process of teaching and learning. Youth will also explore the benefits and difficulties of using digital storytelling.   

We Just Want to Change the World: Teaching Toward Social Justice, Solidarity and Activism    

Keene State College and Spark Teacher Education Institute

This hands-on workshop will explore social justice education within the mandated curriculum.  Participants are invited to enter a dialogue regarding principles and models of critical pedagogy, both in PK-12 classrooms and in teacher education, including teaching and organizing for empowerment and activism on part of teachers and students alike.   

We Rep Ourselves: It’s Time for Media Justice     

Females United for Action

Because our brown, black, girl, genderqueer, working-class bodies & minds are under fire; because lies are being told about our communities; & because it is better to speak, we rep ourselves. Come rap about media justice, representation and community change! With games, diagrams, zines and discussion, we'll break down “media justice.” We'll share tools and help you think about ways to take the story-telling back to your own communities.    

We Shall Prevail: Chicano/a student activism in the Press

Venceremos

In this workshop, participants will learn about the Chicano/a activist newspaper Venceremos, which is produced at the University of Utah. Specifically, we will discuss the ways we use the paper as a space to share our stories, inform our communities and promote activism. The workshop will include a panel discussion and interactive activities to exemplify how we use the newspaper to create a dialogue that pivots the experiences/epistemologies of underrepresented groups to the center of our educational journeys.

What Kids Know That Tests Don’t Show: Cultural Literacy in School and Community 

Kathleen Cushman, What Kids Can Do 

Come try our fun and provocative "SAT"—co-produced with Bronx high schoolers—to test how closely you listen to students and what assumptions you carry into multicultural classrooms.  Then join a dialogue on multiculturalism, equity, learning, and testing. We’ll brainstorm cross-cultural issues in our own communities, and explore how to create “SAT-You!” A complimentary copy of the book SAT Bronx is included.   

Youth in Charge - How to Develop Effective Intergenerational and Youth-led Decision-making Structures Within Social Justice Organizations   

Chicago Freedom School

This workshop, led by an intergenerational team, explores approaches, practices, and structures that empower youth to participate  actively and effectively in decision-making and governing structures. Through fun and interactive exercises we will provide practical tools and ideas for how best to assess youth involvement, how to include youth on organizational boards, how to develop youth-led governing structures, and how to create meaningful intergenerational spaces.  

Youth Liberation: Roots to Revolution  

Make the Road New York

ACTIVITY FULL

This workshop will use spoken word, video and interactive/experiential learning to share the work of the Youth Power Project of Make the Road New York as an example of successful youth organizing. Participants will learn about the campaigns, political education and arts/media components of the Project, while also engaging in movement building around vision, analysis and strategy.

Youth Organizing for Environmental Justice  

UPROSE

UPROSE youth organizers will give a workshop on environmental justice and how to engage youth where they live. We will focus on the effects of climate change in our hoods, our rights to green space and how to mobilize the community for governmental action. Through role-playing, storytelling and experience-sharing, we will help participants develop skills to confront the problems we face in the community.

Youth Participatory Action Research for Social change: Moving from Research to Transformative Action   

Girls for Gender Equity and Growing up in Salt Lake City

In this workshop, participants will be introduced to three youth participatory action research (PAR) projects, from Salt Lake City and New York City, that exemplify how to move from research to action on both the community and policy level. Participants will work in small groups to explore how various research products, such as youth produced video research, can be useful towards these aims. Open to all those doing or planning to do PAR research.

Youth Researchers for Social Justice Exchange and Strategy-Building

Mestizo Arts & Activism and The Institute for Participatory Action Research & Design

All young people doing research, or who are interested to learn about how make change in your community, are invited to participate.  Come meet, share, brainstorm, and build connections with other youth researchers from around the country. This will be an opportunity to share ideas and exchange strategies for working towards change.