East Side Youth Fellows
The East Austin Youth Fellowship equips BIPOC youth from East Austin with leadership and organizing skills to reclaim their stories, and build community owned systems.
East Side Youth Fellows
East Austin has a history of youth development through our community and recreation centers but has lost this focus as the neighborhood faces gentrification and displacement. The East Austin Youth Fellowship is an 8-month program that will develop leadership skills in Black, Indigenous, and Latine youth from East Austin. Our facilitators provide weekly political education lessons and provide guidance as our fellows develop campaigns based on community needs and in partnership with other grassroots organizations. Our fellows, ages 14-18, get paid $20/hour.
We are also partnering with East Side Memorial High School's AVID program to support 116 students with tutoring, academic support, workforce development/pathways, graduation planning, arts and civic education.
- Genesis Hernandez -
Current projects of the 2025-2026 cohort
- Our fellows run a club at East Side Memorial High School, open to all East Side high school students
- Podcast to highlight central texas issues and solutions
- Building a workers owned food co-op to sell Tamales
- Building a community land trust and land acquisition for the Montpolis CDC
- Building a basketball court in Montopolis
- Supporting tenant organizing at Aero apartments with CPATX
- Starting a food pantry at Allison Elementary School
Meet Our Fellows
Peterson
Ramirez
Elias
Rivera
Peterson
Our Partners
Montopolis Community Development Corporation
Ecology Action
Allison Parent–Teacher Association
Community Powered ATX
The Healing Project
Montopolis Neighborhood Association
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