Facilitated By: Melanie Leyva & Laisha Ibarra

Audience: Open to Everyone

In this workshop, we’ll explore how our own stories shape what we care about and why we choose to take action. Participants will reflect on an experience that shaped their values around justice, community, belonging, or immigrant rights, and then have a chance to share their story with others.

Using the Story of Self framework and lessons from Youth Empowered in Struggle (YES) and Voces de la Frontera, we’ll talk about how our individual experiences can connect to bigger struggles and help us build collective power. We’ll leave with a better understanding of how storytelling can help us build relationships, solidarity, and movements for racial justice, immigrant rights, and liberation.