Meet the City Year Seattle staff!
Our staff is passionate, hard-working, and joyful. We are working to build a model anti-racist youth centered organization. We strive to disrupt systemically racist practices, ensure diverse perspectives and experiences inform our decision making, and prioritize the experience of young people as we support them in their development.
Today, we saw something that we don’t often see in America: accountability when Black life is taken at the hands of police.
As we, along with communities across the country, waited for this verdict to be announced, we have grappled with the deeply flawed system in which we live and operate: one where we hope for justice for a murder we all watched happen, but knowing that historically, a guilty verdict has rarely been delivered in similar cases.
Today feels like a much-needed step forward, but the work towards justice continues. We continue to stand with the family and friends of George Floyd, with the loved ones of Daunte Wright and countless others who have been killed at the hands of police before and since, and with the Black community.
Above all, we stand with our students, who are both witnessing and participating in this moment. We wrap ourselves in hope and action together with them, with our partners, and with each other in community, until the fact that Black Lives Matter is demonstrated in laws, policies, policing, and in education. We must do this together, in pursuit of a more just and more hopeful future for our students and for all of us.
Art by Thu Anh Nguyen @madebythuanh
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Our #RipplesofHope Campaign starts April 26th-May 14th! This three-week fundraising campaign will be a virtual celebration of @cityyear’s work, during which we’ll share stories of impact from this year of innovative virtual service, spotlight our anti-racist values that drive our work in schools, and celebrate our amazing @americorps members who make this work possible!
And, mark your calendar for our first-ever City Year Town Hall on May 14th with guest speaker @ijeomaoluo, Seattle-based equity leader, and New York Times bestselling author of "So You Want to Talk about Race." During this conversation, and culminating event, we will explore issues on race and social justice, and discuss how City Year Seattle / King County advances education equity for Seattle students. All who donate to our Ripples of Hope campaign will be invited!
Learn more now! Link in bio ❤️
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After months of hard work, we are happy to share our Civic Engagement team installed our "Beloved Community" murals at Wing Luke Elementary School. These murals were created with the help of City Year Champions at our annual MLK Day of Service in January and are the first piece of artwork to decorate the halls in the new building. What a beautiful way to welcome students back to school next week!
Special thanks to everyone who made this project possible, most notably Van Nguyen and Colleen Weinstein from @seattlepublicschools, Principal Mendoza, Assistant Principal Clark, the @cityyear team at Wing Luke, and our corporate sponsors at @talkingrainwaters, @starbucks, Russell Investments, and @kp_washington for supporting this event. THANK YOU!!!
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Today we mourn the loss of eight lives at the hands of another emboldened gunman: Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Yan, Daoyou Feng, and four more individuals we are waiting to learn more about.
As we've seen throughout history, much of the brunt of these targeted violent attacks falls onto BIPoC women; in this case, of the eight lives lost, six were Asian-American women.
These actions are intolerable.
Currently, there are mixed reports on the motivation of these heinous actions, much of which suggest that the attacks were racially motivated. This extreme violence comes at a moment in our country when we have seen an increase in anti-Asian violence and rhetoric over the past year, much of it targeting Asian women. These acts of hate are rooted in this country's deep history of racism and misogyny.
At City Year, we honor the identities of all who are a part of our community. And we recognize that actions like these seek to create a division in our communities. As an organization, we will continue to strive towards anti-racism and create space for ALL who want to walk this journey alongside us.
Please join us in holding the victims and their loved ones in your thoughts.
To take action, check out & support these organizations: @smithsonianapa @weareaanow @hateisavirus @stopaapihate and to report acts of violence visit stopaapihate.org
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Statement by: @cityyear Office of Equity
Congress just passed #COVID19 relief bill that includes $1B for @AmeriCorps.
Thank you @senpattymurray for taking a #Stand4Service and for the role #nationalservice has - & can - play in helping schools reopen and students recover from the loss of instructional time!
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Happy International Women's Day from your friends at @cityyearseattle ❤️
Tag a woman who inspires you below and tell us why!
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