We work with the understanding that storytelling can amplify student and community voices to break through echo chambers and shift field discourse towards real change — informing, inspiring, and moving people to actively create a more equitable world.

We commit to designing all pedagogical practices, engagement activities, and programming in line with our vision for realizing social and racial equity in this nation, recognizing our country’s long history of structural oppression at the intersection of race and class across primary, secondary, and higher education and the professional sector — while also challenging both our role and the nonprofit ecosystem’s in perpetuating it.

We guide our work with a commitment to bolstering the strengths, talents, ambitions, and already existing assets of students, partners, and communities — over and above perceived needs — to generate solutions that drive their individual and unique visions of success forward.