UPTURN Leadership Academy 🌱

Want to make an actual change in your community? Our 4-week paid cohort teaches the basics of community-centered work that encourages building collective power, all while you learn how to organize around an issue and show up for your people. You'll be in a cohort of about 50 to 60 other young people!

APPLICATIONS ARE open for the summer!!

Click the link to apply!!

what’s in store for you

Session topics

  • Setting Intentions & Telling your story

  • Identifying Problems in your community 

  • Root Causes of problems 

  • Power (Macro and Micro)  

  • Positionality (Understand self in relation to Community) 

  • Why to Organizing 

  • How and Where to Organize 

  • Cohort Closing Reflection

Duration

Meetings are twice a week and will run from June 16th through August 15th. Participants are required to attend one of two Paperwork sessions held the week of June 8th.

Location

The program is entirely virtual.

Compensation

Participants will be paid $21/hr for the sessions they attend.

Qualifications

  • Between 14 to 26 years old in Oregon

  • Have access to reliable wifi and a smart device (computer, tablet, phone) to access online meetings

  • Can commit to attending 7 out of 8 meetings

  • A passion for social change and racial justice


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