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“While it’s important for young people to be able to drive, you don’t have to be able to to re-invent the wheel. There are many generations of activists, intellectuals and social justice warriors that have come before—familiarize yourself with their work.” –Jonathan Cunningham Our gratitude to Jonathan Cunningham for joining our youth and staff to…

“So much of what has to drive us going forward is taking a look at our history and what our ancestors and our people have come through, how hard they fought.” –Diana Becton Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton joined our youth and staff for an online leadership seminar to share her wisdom, experience…

“Now is the perfect time to be showing that our voices matter and we are making change happen.” Rep. Steve Bergquist Thanks to Steve Bergquist for joining us for one of our online leadership seminars. He dialoged with our youth and staff about his wealth of experience and insights learned while being a high school…

“Community is so important, and there are certain principles of taking care of one another that are fundamental. At any moment we have to trust each other.” –Lamar Thorpe Lamar Thorpe joined out youth and staff for an online leadership seminar and shared his wisdom about the principles of fairness, providing opportunity and ethics that…