Opportunity for young Quakers

Please pass this information on within your meetings and worship groups. Applications are accepted from February 3 to March 9, 2025.
 
Emerging Leaders for Liberation (ELL) Application | American Friends Service Committee
 
This program is open to young adults looking to deepen their social justice and leadership skills. Emerging Leaders aims to support the development of young people and is especially beneficial to those that are newer to organizing spaces.
 
Through this program, participants will gain an understanding of systemic oppression through trainings and experiences regarding accompaniment, anti-racism, organizing, advocacy, resourcing, and Quaker principles. Participants will take part in both AFSC-sponsored and other local campaigns and systems-level advocacy efforts. They will gain a complex understanding of social change movements, immersing themselves in community level change efforts.
 
As part of the program, cohort members will be required to complete an action learning project in their community. This project will demonstrate cohort members’ newfound community organizing knowledge and will be funded up to $1,000. Previous cohort members have tackled issues of gentrification, migrant rights, human rights violations in prisons, inequal access to education, institutional racism, and many more.