Mycelium Youth Network presents an analysis of state violence, displacement, and environment across three cohorts of youth 15-23 years old from San Francisco and Oakland. Join us for an interactive art show that honors youth and attendees as knowledge holders and invites community to co-create understandings of environmental justice and resistance beyond individual action by engaging youth artwork and Photovoice projects. Also, come learn from our youth’s year-long work around mutual aid distributions, ICE safety planning, and community healing!
Mycelium Youth Network (MYN) is a Bay Area youth-centered organization founded in 2017, dedicated to bridging the gap between increasing climate-related disasters and the abilities of young people to proactively respond. We prepare predominantly low-income Black and Brown youth in the Bay Area -- who are most vulnerable to and already feeling the effects of environmental racism -- for climate change by drawing from ancestral traditions and practices. MYN focuses on climate resilience and climate mitigation to create and strengthen existing holistic relationships and build out regenerative economies. We empower youth to grow as visionary leaders and budding environmentalists, connect with ancestral teachings, and trust in the wisdom of the natural world.
The Youth Leadership Council is a place-based, environmental justice internship that equips young people from Mission High and Metwest High with political education, decision-making power, and research tools to critically assess their conditions, organize, and co-create their visions of a liberated future.
Data Warriors is an anti-racist and anti-colonial participatory research internship where frontline youth from Oakland (ages 15-23) study issues they care about, relate them to State violence and environmental justice, then design and practice interventions that support their community. A core objective of Data Warriors is to develop evaluation values, tools, and capacity to explore lived realities and socioemotional experiences of oppression and liberation.