Youth Leadership Institute
The UPROSE Youth Leadership Institute will train 15 NYC Youth of Color on facilitation skills, teach Climate and Environmental Justice truths, review the solutions that are based within the Just Transition model, and describe how to implement what one learns from their own communities into their own activism. Students will exercise and develop their skills in order to movement-build within the Climate Justice fight. Along with UPROSE organizers and guest speakers, through a virtual platform, the Youth Leaders in training will engage in a learning environment that aims to introduce UPROSE's history, purpose, current campaigns, and the principles that we hold ourselves to in grassroots activism.
We hope to engage with BIYOC who are motivated and dedicated individuals who want to become part of a leader-full community, organizing around climate injustices. Being apart of a movement means there is not just one leader at the front. Being part of a leaderfull movement means we can all claim our space as leaders and lead collectively.
Interested Participants Register here: http://bit.ly/YLI2021
*INSTITUTE MEETING TIMES: February 8- March 11, 2021 {Mondays & Thursdays from 4-6PM}
Applications will not be accepted after January 23rd, 2021 at midnight. Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee and will notify you of your determination by February 1st, 2021. Please, no phone calls.
*UPROSE strongly encourages young people ages 14-21, people of color of African ancestry, people with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ+ communities to apply.
This includes radicalized/people of color, Black people, Indigenous and Two-Spirit people, Muslims, Jewish people of color, women, femmes, poor and working class backgrounds, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, and queer people, genderqueer, non-binary, and non-conforming people, and people from non-academic backgrounds.
