Rooted in youth, solidarity, advocacy, justice, education, healing, mentorship, and liberation.
What We Do
“Tomorrow’s world is yours to build.”
-Yuri Kochiyama
Impact with Intention
Our key strategies guide our mission of liberating and empowering marginalized youth…
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Political Education, Advocacy, and Organizing——
because youth deserve a better world.
Youth Leadership, Investment, and Mentorship——
reimagining who carries the torch.
Coalition-Building——
mobilizing & inspiring, at home in California, nationwide, & across the globe.
Mutual Aid——
distribution of wealth & resources, for the people, by the people.
Healing, Community Wellness, and Radical Joy——
because we take care of each other when systems fail.
Narrative Change and Research——
as learning is found in lived experience.
Youth Movement-Building——
as solidarity, intersectionality, & intergenerationality fuels our fight.
Inspiring Worldwide——
because social justice & liberation speaks to all, beyond the borders.
$18.5+ million advised & secured
Transforming funding equity with a youth social justice and community vision.
400,000+ youth & allies engaged
Inspiring through our unwavering mission—locally, globally, and everywhere in-between.
270,000+ mobilized
Movements, demonstrations, political education, community empowerment, & youth advocacy.
171+ countries reached
As liberation, youth leadership, and collaborative changemaking knows no borders.
2,000+ in-person programming participants
Cultivating people-power face to face—for our schools, neighborhoods, and democracy.
175+ impact coalition partners
Leading collaborations for this generation and the next, from California to the world.
Liberating Education
Public workshops at local, statewide, national and global scales in versatile formats. Empowered outlets for youth-activist, political, and civic knowledge and engagement. Grassroots organizing conferences, socio-political teach-ins, guest speakers, and social justice media serving California, and beyond. Institutes capacitating justice-focused work. Original activist media and publications. Seminars, screenings, learning. Worldwide reach.
Solidarity & Community
Cross-cultural, intergenerational healing justice practice. Free peer-counseling, community wellness groups, and yoga for historically-marginalized youth. Socio-politically competent, trauma-informed, and accessible facilitation, consulting, mentorship, and distribution of resources and information. Centering BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and immigrant folks. Interactive, community programs and activities. Empowerment campaigns and local safe spaces for youth to heal, grow, and thrive. Building havens for radical joy and collective power. Services meeting need.
Youth Leadership
Growing opportunities for activist-minded students and youth change-makers, from grassroots fellowships, to public service internships, to micro-grants and mentorships. Dedicated to empowering youth-led social change. Student-powered contingents, youth-serving advocacy campaigns, and call-to-actions reaching hundreds of thousands of community members. Global thought-partnerships and coalitions for youth liberation. Listening sessions and statewide research influencing California policy. Restorative youth empowerment. Opportunity networks.
What is Mutual Aid?
Mutual aid is the practice of sharing care, resources, and services within a community, for the people, by the people. It’s a community meeting each other’s needs, with the recognition that unjust systems do not, while working to build relationships, infrastructure, solutions, and life-affirming networks that ensure we address and mend the gaps.
With the mission to work from the grassroots, bringing solidarity and radical love to marginalized communities and local people, we have worked to cultivate mutual aid campaigns across Sacramento, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Southern California, and San Diego—dedicated to redistributing wealth, education, food, and further essential resources.