YO! Cali & Center for Empowered Politics

Examples of my work with YO! Cali & Center for Empowered Politics include:

• A 2020 Research Brief for YO! Cali summarizing surveys, focus groups, and interviews from youth organizing groups on: 1.) how the pandemic has turbocharged existing systemic inequalities; 2.) foundations for new possibilities forged by youth movements’ transformative victories; and 3.) youth’s hopes and visions for a more just future.
• A report for YO! Cali, where I analyzed and summarized focus group themes and drafted a report based on the voices of 129 BIPOC young people from 13 organizations who participated in focus groups in June 2022 and four one-on-one interviews in June and July 2022. The report captures young people’s and participating organizations’ recommendations for the California Youth Behavioral Initiative, including overarching themes around needs and principles, specific implications and recommendations for CYBHI implementation, and summaries of needs and recommendations around school-based services, developing a BIPOC behavioral workforce, support around substance use, and virtual services.
• A report with Center for Empowered Politics, prepared for the Irvine Foundation, that provides an understanding and gap analysis of the landscape of past, current and prospective programs and platforms that support the training and leadership development of organizers in the worker rights, civic engagement and other relevant fields.