Youth and Environmental Justice - Santa Clara University

Youth and Environmental Justice

We support community organizations, grassroots efforts, and youth-centered programming, as well as school and afterschool learning spaces that foster the sociopolitical development and leadership of young people in climate action and environmental justice initiatives. We document youth community organizing and leadership development initiatives that facilitate and sustain young people’s leadership in sustainability, climate, and environmental justice actions. We recognize youth as having agency and voice in expressing their environmental concerns, leading solutions, and developing movements for climate action.

Contact: Jesica Fernández

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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 Social Entrepreneurship

For more information: YJP Process and Outcomes