THE PEACE & JUSTICE YOUTH CONFERENCE

The Peace & Justice Youth Conference is an annual, youth led-adult supported, in person conference for NYC based youth ages 11-21 (middle school, high school and college). The conference is a full day of community building games, youth-led social justice workshop presentations, artistic performances and youth participatory action research, based on our themes of “peace, justice, safety & belonging.”

Past workshops have been lead by youth groups such as Girls For Gender Equity (GGE), Student & Educators for Equity, The Ya-Ya Network, Youth Power Coalition, H.O.L.L.A., EJ-ROC, Malikah, ArtsConnection, Arte and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), IntegrateNYC, Bronx Academy for Software Engineering (BASE) High School, The Circle Keepers & Restorative Justice Initiative.