Author: slpLiz
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Activist Spotlight: Ashanti Benons
SLP’s Youth Board continues to grow, with new voices from around Brooklyn joining the Board’s ongoing advocacy for educational equity and action civics for all NYC youth. Today, we feature an interview with one of our newest members, Ashanti Benons, a senior at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School. Check out a few highlights from our…
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Activist Spotlight: Jyoti Laverack
As we kick off the 2019-20 school year, we are excited to share a new interview from our Spotlight Series, which features stories from young activists doing amazing work around the country. Today, we bring you a conversation with a member of SLP’s amazing Youth Board, high school Junior Jyoti Laverack. Check out a few…
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SLP expands to Vermont!
We’ve always known – and many years of inspiring SLP projects have confirmed – that Brooklyn youth have a unique and powerful perspective on how to create positive change in their schools and neighborhoods. This year, when an opportunity arose to work with youth attending school in a very different environment – rural Vermont! –…
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Fifth Graders Launch “Prevent. Prepare. Provide” Campaign
During SLP’s Spring 2019 Residency, a 5th grade class at PS 58 in Carroll Gardens decided to tackle an increasingly urgent community problem: the impact of extreme weather events on the most vulnerable New Yorkers. During the Research Phase, these young advocates learned how climate change amplifies extreme weather, causing natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy…
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SLP Youth Board Calls for Culturally Responsive Action Civics For All
We are the members of the Service Learning Project’s (SLP) inaugural Youth Board, formed to provide a platform for Brooklyn high school students to develop their leadership skills and advocate for legislation that increases student voice and overall civic engagement throughout the city. Over the past six months, we have worked to research the state and…
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Activist Spotlight: Marcus Alston
In this week’s installment of the Spotlight Series, we bring you a conversation with Marcus Alston, a member of NYC Says Enough, a coalition of students working together to protest gun violence and to urge legislators to pass common sense gun laws. Check out a few highlights from our conversation with Marcus below! Tell us…
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SLP Students at Fort Hamilton High School Take Their Research to the Streets
During the Research Phase of an SLP project, when students become experts on their chosen social issue, they often collect data through surveys and direct observation. For ninth graders at Fort Hamilton High School determined to prevent littering, this meant community mapping – or an observational field trip. After several weeks of building their knowledge…
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Activist Spotlight: Sokhnadiarra Ndiaye
In this week’s installment of the Spotlight Series, we bring you a conversation with Sokhnadiarra Ndiaye, communications manager at Teens Take Charge, activist fighting for NYC educational equity, and member of SLP’s Youth Board. Check out our interview with Sokhnadiarra below! Tell us a little bit about yourself. I’m a junior at Brooklyn College Academy…
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Activist Spotlight: Iman Abdul
In this week’s installment of the Spotlight Series, we bring you a conversation with Iman Abdul, born and raised in Brooklyn, who has dedicated her life to empowering New York City youth, championing the right of every child to a free, culturally responsive, equitable, and just education. Check out a few excerpts from our interview…
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Teen Girls are Going to Save Our World
A huge student protest movement led almost exclusively by teenage girls and young women is sweeping Europe, and the US is not far behind. So far this year, tens of thousands of high school–age students in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden have boycotted class and protested against climate change. Their inspiration: a 16-year-old girl who began…