Rutgers Newark, The Inclusion Project, Looking for Statewide Youth Ambassadors!

FWD: The Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers Newark, The Inclusion Project, the Latino Action Network Foundation, Salvation and Social Justice, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, among other stakeholder organizations, are planning a statewide virtual conference entitled "Re-Envisioning the Future of Educational Equity in New Jersey," to be held on June 11, 2022.

We seek a group of Statewide Youth Ambassadors to engage with adult stakeholders and be a critical voice throughout the implementation process.

This conference is the first in a series of meetings to produce an educational equity agenda for the state and create connections opportunities. The issues to be addressed are likely to include:

Inequities In Resources And Funding,
Discipline
Pre-School
Disconnected Youth
Post-Secondary Outcomes
Special Education
Segregation

Statewide Youth Ambassadors will meet bi-weekly with adult stakeholders for 1-1.5 hours beginning in April 2022. They will review data, mobilize youth, organize breakout sessions and panel discussions, contribute to a statewide equity agenda, and may offer input between meetings as well.

In addition to leadership skills, event planning, and organizing experience, SYAs may be afforded small honorariums or other tokens of appreciation in recognition of their time.

People between the ages of 16 to 24, including current or recent New Jersey high school students, are strongly encouraged to sign up.

To sign up, please complete THIS FORM no later than Wednesday, April 6, 2022.

If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Laus at jessica.laus@rutgers.edu.

Please share this invitation widely.

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