Youth and Environmental Justice
Through the Youth for Justice Project, we support youth-centered programming, community organizations, grassroots efforts, and civic engagement, as well as school and afterschool learning spaces that foster the wellbeing and health, sociopolitical development, and leadership of young people in climate action and environmental justice initiatives. We document youth community organizing and initiatives that facilitate and sustain young people’s agency. We recognize that youth have power, and can use their voice to express their environmental concerns, leading solutions, and developing movements and actions for climate action.
Contact: Jesica Fernández
Projects
- Youth for Justice Project
An after-school program that supports the civic engagement, leadership development, arts advocacy, and critical thinking skills of middle school youth in the Guadalupe-Washington neighborhood and downtown San José, CA. Art-advocacy action projects engage youth in reflecting, researching, and responding to issues at the intersections of environmental justice, education, and social change.
SCU Participants: Jesica Fernández and multiple student researchers/co-educators
Partners: Sacred Heart Nativity School, Local Color, Rio Holaday, San José Museum of Art
Funders: Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office Bend the Arc for Racial Justice Program; American Psychological Association’s Society for Community Research & Action; Santa Clara University College of Arts & Sciences Real Experience Applied Learning (REAL) Program; Santa Clara University Miller Center for Global Impact
For more information: YJP Process and Outcomes
