🎉Congratulations to the Emerging Organizers Fellowship Cohort 7 🎉

Over the past nine months, 29 fellows have participated in deep and dedicated personal & social transformation that aims to build the capacity of young people and organizations in California to practice transformative youth organizing, build power, and create long-term transformation in marginalized communities.

Congratulations Cohort 7 💗
You are a living testament that a liberated future filled with abundance, love, care, and joy is inevitable. We thank you for your deep commitment to youth organizing and building power across California.
🌱

@ylinstitute
@siren_immigrantrights
@cope2000_

We are very excited to announce and congratulate the fellows in our newest Cohort in our Emerging Organizers Fellowship! 🎊

After a year break to rest, reflect, and evaluate, we are back and better than ever! 🌱

Our Cohort 7 is made up of 29 BIPOC youth organizers from across California, ranging in ages from 19 to 30. Fellows represent organizations across that state, with 10 fellows from Northern California, 9 fellows from Central Valley and 10 fellows from Southern Californi📍

This year’s organizations & fellows are leading powerful campaigns and building youth power in their regions and statewide on issues such as immigrant rights, environmental justice, housing, civic engagement, alternatives to punitive juvenile justice, healing justice, and Native youth mental health. ✨

Congratulations Cohort 7 💗🎉
———————————————————————————
@poder.sf @loud4tmrw @hipcalifornia @ryseyouthcenter @genteorganizada @oaklandkidsfirst @ie_iyc @brossonsselves @baypeace510 @canativevote @cope2000_ @littlemanilastockton @sanfrancisco_rising @ylinstitute @yuca_1994 @blackorganizingproject @midcitycan @elffresno @majdalcenter @youth4alliance @ocenvironmentaljustice @siren_immigrantrights @twofeathers_nafs @lovefaithhopemerced @vietrainbowoc @sbyouthchangemakers @cause805 @cope2000_

🚨Big news! We just dropped our Mapping Rivers to Oceans Report! The report gives us a powerful snapshot of the youth organizing ecosystem across California! 🌊💫 This isn’t just a report, it’s a love letter to our movement, shaped by your voices, stories, and bold visions. Dive in, celebrate with us, and carry this momentum forward. Together, we’re building something vast, vibrant, and unstoppable. 💛

We stand in solidarity with the young people and everyone who is building a new world! ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🌎✨

In March we had the pleasure of hosting an Herbal First Aid workshop with the lovely team @hoodherbalism . During this session we brought together 18 organizations from across the state to learn how we can best collaborate with our plant kin to support the safety and wellbeing of our people, educate folks on herbal first aid, and how to put an herbal first aid kit together, and made herbal bandaids with yarrow!

Beautiful art work done by @elotedreamz who also provided guidance and love to this creation ✨🌱💕

This workshop was informed by the many fights we have seen our communities battle over the past few years from our Global Solidarity work for Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Tigray and sadly many other countries to the fights for our undocumented kin across the state, and the SoCal fires from earlier this year. During all of these we witnessed our folks be on the frontlines, and wanted to ensure we could support their safety in whatever way we could ❤️‍🔥

We hope you all can use this toolkit to navigate, hold, take care of yourself and one another in these times.

Link is available in our bio 💗✨