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WHAT IS THE YOUTH SUMMIT?
Students and Educators for Equity (SEE) and Youth Restorative Justice (YRJ) aim to bring together a collective of student voices to highlight the effects of disproportionality on students, while providing best practices to address and dismantle disproportionality. Through a youth-led summit, we will elevate student perspectives in an effort to foster inclusive, humanizing, and critical learning environments for all members of our school communities.
Mckayla Gardner, Lyons Community School '21
Megan Mero, Queens School of Inquiry '22
Brianna Douglas, KAPPA International '21
Julian Giordano, Stuyvesant High School '21
Anduanett Beriguette, Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology '21
Alex Antonetti, UA Academy for Government + Law '22
Gyamfi Abankwah, Bronx International '22
Olufunke Abiona, Business Technology Early College High School '22
Titilayo Aluko, Landmark High School '21
Marisol Martinez, The Beacon School '22
Lianne Castillo, UA Academy for Government + Law '22
Sidharth Mahaedo, Queens School of Inquiry '22
Alyssa Wheeler, Manhattan Hunter Science High School '22
Dillon Nettles
Dillon Nettles
Dillon Nettles is a student organizer, policy and advocacy director for @acluofalabama, and co-founder of @forewordsouth. Dillon is dedicated to uplifting the voices of young, Black queer folks across the South and using his own to be a voice for the voiceless!
The Bennett Sisters
The Bennett Sisters
13-year-old Breanna and Brooke are fraternal sisters and founders Women in Training, Inc. (WIT), a youth empowerment organization that advocates for menstrual equity, menstrual education, and engages girls and nonbinary youth, ages 10 to 18, in community service and social justice.
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Jonny Teklit
Jonny Teklit
Jonny Teklit is a winner of the 2019 Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize as well as the winner of the 2019 Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award. Currently a reader for The Adroit Journal, his work has appeared in The New Yorker.
Kelly Jimenez
Kelly Jimenez
Kelly Jimenez, born and raised in the Bronx, is a spoken word poet, artist, and junior at the Manhattan Hunter Science High School. She is interested in pursuing a career in veterinary medicine but loves to practice the arts in her free time. She enjoys painting, drawing and most prominently: writing poetry. She fell in love with poetry early on in middle school and it has been a passion and an outlet of hers ever since. This is Kelly’s first time ever sharing her poetry publicly.
The purpose of the Youth Summit Workshops is to provide collaborative, dialogic spaces to:
The purpose of the Youth Summit Workshops is to provide collaborative, dialogic spaces to:
1) illuminate the experience and perspectives of youth in our current socio-political state of education
2) showcase groundbreaking youth-centered work to address disproportionality
3) highlight the power of restorative and transformative justice practices in building positive school cultures
The purpose of engaging youth artists in the summit is to provide a space to:
The purpose of engaging youth artists in the summit is to provide a space to:
1) highlight organizations and groups that are working toward disrupting disproportionality through use of restorative practices within their community, and/or are involved in related forms of youth empowerment and liberation through art
2) allow youth visual artists to showcase their work in our virtual gallery
3) allow youth performers to showcase their talents at the summit through live/prerecorded performances
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