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Empowering BIPOC Youth to Heal the Planet 2021

Empowering BIPOC Youth was a two-part program. In the spring BIPOC and other
teens 15-19 received $13.50/hr. for the opportunity to learn from BIPOC
professionals about starting and running youth programs and a variety of business
operations. Dr. Nubra Floyd, a lecturer at University of Santa Cruz, California,
assisted in organizing the program. Other speakers were Rev. Vernon Walker,
Waseem Givens, Chanthal Harris, and several staff members of Alaska Air Lines. 

​In the summer, some students left the program while other joined our regular
summer programming–learning about native plants, holding plant sales, designing and installing gardens for a variety of customers.