The Leadership & Liberation Fellowship is a 6-month intergenerational hybrid learning space designed to support youth leadership through community connection, political education, and skill building. We create a collective experience that focuses on the following goals:

1. Increased self-awareness: participants explore who they are as people and gain new insights about themselves

2. Increased sense of belonging: participants feel they are an important part of something with others 

3. Increased knowledge and application of healing centered movement building principles: participants’ relationships and wellbeing are centered while they work for change

4. Ability to open up and speak out: participants feel more comfortable to share their truth

The Leadership & Liberation Fellowship is facilitated by the Arts for Healing and Justice Network, the Los Angeles Youth Uprising Coalition (LAYUP) and Green Arrow Co-Lab. It runs twice a year beginning in the Fall and Spring. To be updated on the next application period please sign up for the AHJN newsletter.

The Decolonization workgroup meets every other Tuesday at 2pm on zoom. It is an expansive learning space that is grounded in Culture, Healing, and Liberation. Our collective learning is done with inclusive values and we center the leadership of Indigenous, Black, and Brown youth and community. As we learn and grow together we seek to build power in ourselves and power in our collective to dismantle harms and to imagine ourselves at the center of transformative change. We are also concerned that young people and communities are deliberately misled about our history and we seek to remedy that by learning the true history of all peoples, with special attention to the lives, cultures, and conditions of Indigenous peoples. 

To rsvp and receive the zoom link contact zoe@ahjnetwork.org

The Arts for Healing and Justice Network is 1 of the 5 lead coordinators of the Los Angeles Youth Uprising Coalition (LAYUP). LAYUP is fighting to end mass incarceration and focuses specifically on the treatment of young people. The LAYUP goals are to 1. Reduce the number of youth in detention and having contact with probation and other harmful systems by increasing opportunities for diversion 2. Strengthen oversight and accountability 3. Reinvest LA County’s spending from punishment systems into community-based, owned and operated youth development programs and 4. Develop meaningful community leadership 5. Expand youth development in LA County and 6. Shift narratives about youth development as a public safety strategy and investment in the health of youth and communities.

If you would like to join the LA Youth Uprising Coalition please sign up for their newsletter here.