OUR VALUES

  • We believe all youth, specifically indigenous, black and other youth of color, should have what they need to grow and thrive.
  • We believe in centralizing the voices and narratives of people that also recognizes multiple approaches to creating a more equitable and just world.

  • We believe that individuals and organizations can change their underlying beliefs, practices, policies, and procedures to create environments that unlock the potential and skills of all people.
  • We believe that meaningful change happens when individual and institutionally-supported commitments to increased social and racial awareness are paired with processes that focus on deep racial and social identity development, knowledge of systemic oppression, and transformational community-building practices.

  • We believe that co-creating and maintaining an environment that invites courageous and honest conversations about everyday manifestations of oppression is essential to an equitable and just world.
  • We believe that speaking truth to power is key to our collective liberation

  • We believe that recognizing and valuing people’s humanity is essential to creating the type of community needed to challenge systemic oppression.
  • We believe in working withpeople- not for We believe in building power withpeople not power overpeople.

  • We believe that we cannot ask others to do work we are not willing to engage in ourselves.
  • We lead by example and experience, not just theory.

  • We believe that human-centered, anti-racism and anti-oppression is possible.

  • We believe in collective liberation, inside and outside of the work space.
  • We believe that effective change must be multi-level and systemic. It is necessary to challenge systemic racism in institutional practices, policies and procedures as well as in interpersonal relationships.