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Identity, Inclusion & Belonging Challenges:

I challenge you to create a mural that beautifies and addresses an unheard voice, story, or issue in your community. I then challenge you to launch a campaign that engages your peers in the preservation and understanding of the art work.

Judy Baca

I challenge you, the students of Los Angeles, CA, to use spontaneous performance to open hearts, minds, and eyes in moments when you perceive them to be closed, inspiring greater empathy, understanding, and connection in your community.

Anna Deavere Smith

I challenge you to use art to preserve the cultural identities of your community and to collaborate with another community to celebrate your differences and similarities.

Charles “Lil Buck” Riley & Damian Woetzel

I challenge you to come up with a platform for connecting with your classmates or peers to identify, research and take action on racial inequity that you see in your school or community.

Catherine Wigginton-Greene

I challenge you to leverage technology and design a platform to engage with youth from around the world. This platform should be scalable and convince high school students, and society at large, that engaging with people from different cultures should be the norm.

Chris Plutte

Identity, Inclusion & Belonging Solutions:

Judy Baca

Mervyn M. Dymally High School

Diamonds in the Rough is centered on highlighting human stories in hopes of erasing the lines that divide us and breaking the chains that hold us back from reaching our potential.

Eagle Rock High School

Paint-ER is determined to launch and maintain an after school program for the Arts at Eagle Rock Junior and Senior High School united by the creation of a mural that will beautify our school and address a global concern collectively presented by the Class of 2019.

Arleta High School

"Paint the 818" accelerates the maturation process from tagging to muralist through education and involvement in order to enhance the beauty of our community and stop the defacing of our neighborhoods.

Abraham Lincoln High School

Behind the Heights is creating a growing mural that tells the unheard stories of Lincoln Heights, beginning with the 1968 Student Walkouts, and beautifies our community.

Anna Deavere Smith

West Adams

Creating opportunities and garnering support from the community to help our homeless population. We’re building bridges (we won the bridge building contest)!

Washington Prep High School

Bringing our students together to open their hearts, minds, and eyes. It's common sense!

Hamilton High School

Human Efforts Aimed at Relating Together (HEART) aspires to positively influence the lives of other students who may have difficulty keeping up with the standards and expectations of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

Banning High School

As Pilots we guide our community to safe harbor through acts of kindness and compassion. Pass the Ribbon!

I challenge you to use art to preserve the cultural identities of your community and to collaborate with another community to celebrate your differences and similarities.

Charles “Lil Buck” Riley & Damian Woetzel

I challenge you to come up with a platform for connecting with your classmates or peers to identify, research and take action on racial inequity that you see in your school or community.

Catherine Wigginton-Greene

Denver South Eracism

Denver South Eracism is a youth driven movement dedicated to taking action against racial inequity throughout the community and challenging stereotypes, in order to create a more culturally aware and accepting environment.

B.O.L.T.S (Be One, Lead Together)

A Day With R.A.C.E (Respect All Cultures Equally) is an awareness campaign that addresses the racial inequities the 5 points area still faces through community key note speakers and student performances, as well as ways the community combats these issues through community partner displays and information.

C.O.L.O.R.

We, COLOR: Creatively Optimistic Leaders of Respect, are combatting the issues surrounding race; through the allocation of literature, music, and art we are facilitating tough conversations within workshops and forums, raising awareness in our community, and are creating a movement to fight back against the racial inequity in our society.

See Me As I Am

A social platform developed by young adults for young adults that creates a space for us to define ourselves, not one that defines us for others, in order to address issues related to race.

Freedom Blazers

To bring awareness of racism to our school and community by acknowledging the painful affects it has had on individuals and to empower our students and community in healing the negative affect of racism.

Chris Plutte

Cultural Affinity

Cultural Affinity increases knowledge and understanding of different cultures and ways of life among youth around the world by connecting with them through social media i.e. Facebook, and Instagram.

Global Gazebo

Global Gazebo is hosting a website where students around the world can communicate with each other on a regular basis using videos and pictures.

Generation W3

Our mission is to create an annual event with supporting social media resources that will highlight the cultural differences of people from different countries in order to promote better understanding among diverse peoples.

Big Little World

Our mission is to make this big world a little smaller by communicating with people from other countries through social media in order to discover and promote what all people, regardless of location, have in common.

PEACE

PEACE (People Exploring A Country Everyday) encourages students from across the world to interact with one another, both inside and outside of school, with our app in order to explore different cultures, eliminate stereotypes, and discover similarities/differences through interactive games, forums, and shared photographs.