Triggering Change Conference THIS WEEKEND at Hampshire College

This Saturday is the Triggering Change Conference at Hampshire College. The topics this year are Hip Hop, Community Engagement, and Sites of Empowerment.

The conference features many workshops that are focused specifically on engaging youth - this is a really amazing opportunity to bring the dialogue from your YAC program out into the wider community.

Registration is free! Here's the website: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/59F776X


The schedule of the conference is available at this website: http://trggradio.wordpress.com/

Here are a couple of the workshops and discussions that are really exciting:

'The Main Ingredient’: Youth Education and Media Reform Movements

PANEL
Moderator: Issa Carter

Dee Shabazz, “Seeing the World Through Their Eyes: Media-based Youth Empowerment Strategies at Peck Middle School”

Herman Shelton: “Anti-Violence Organizing with Chicago Youth”

Jordan Berg, “Step by Step: How Political Literacy can Advance Media Reform”


What’s class got to do with it? How talking about class will advance economic and racial justice

WORKSHOP
Facilitated by Rachel Rybaczuk

This workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore race and class intersections from personal, organizational and cultural perspectives. Interactive activities, dialogue, reflection, and visual media will give participants a dynamic way to learn about economic inequality, identify systemic examples of classism, and reflect on social class identity—and how these interact with race. The goal is to bring the topic of class into our communities and movements so we can advance economic and racial justice.


Defining the Elements: Empowering Youth through the Evolution of Hip-Hop

(A workshop designed primarily for youth)
Facilitated by Aisha Jordan and 2050 Legacy


At a Glance: Addressing College Access

The Student Bridges program at UMass Amherst connects underrepresented first-generation college students with K-12 youth in reciprocal tutoring-mentoring relationships with the goal of increasing college access. – In this interactive discussion, participants will consider the concept of college access and explore their relationship to it. Participants will then listen to panelist discuss various barriers and pathways to college as identified by Student Bridges staff students and affiliated youth. By listening and identifying with the facilitators, we hope that participants will begin to think about college access and their role and ability to make change.


Hope to see many of you there!