Learning About Remedy and Repair From Research on Youth Organizing in California (Table 8)

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 3:20 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This interactive symposium asks: What can researchers learn about remedy and repair from the innovative, diverse and sustainable youth organizing efforts that exist in California? Scholarship documents California’s large and lasting youth organizing field (Pintado et. al., 2003; Valladares et. al., 2020). In this session, scholars from four institutions will give spark talks on their research on California youth organizing and then engage in conversations with the AERA community to advance this work. Topics addressed include healing from and combating white supremacy; combining insider and outsider relationships to remedy injustice; understanding the long-term community effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; new practices of emotional possibility and reimagining social change.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice

Chair

• Siomara Valladares, University of Colorado - Boulder

Papers

• Healing and Combating White Supremacy as Youth Organizing Strategies - Danielle N. Aguilar, University of Colorado - Boulder; Ben Kirshner, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Combining insider and outsider strategies to remedy injustice - Kate Baca, University of Colorado - Boulder; Vandna Sinha, University of Colorado - Boulder

• The Thriving Youth Study- Activating Youth as Action Researchers - Veronica Terriquez, University of California - Los Angeles

• Feeling Justice in Long Beach’s Youth Organizing Movements - May Lin, Cal State Long Beach