Over the past two weeks, a lot has been going on for my inquiry. Last week was Earth Week which meant that I wrapped up the week long pre - Earth Day workshop series with all of the New England chapters. Although I faced some unexpected challenges along the way, in the end, I was able to pull off a great series of workshops with the help of many local organizers in the region. It was a great way for all of the chapters to collaborate and work together to spread awareness about the movement throughout the region. We even got some new organizers for a few chapters which was really awesome. Something exciting that happened on the last day of workshops, which I happened to be co-presenting during, was that a state representative from New Hampshire joined the workshop and had high praise for my co-organizer and myself. This week on the regional call, I will be looking for feedback from organizers to see what they liked and did not like about this project and how we can continue doing things like this in the future, or not, depending on how people felt everything went.
This week, I focused on on-boarding new chapters from Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont into the region. It is super exciting because now the region has a chapter in every state, rounding out the region with seven chapters. For this I got on calls with each of the new chapter leads and presented a slideshow to them, introducing them to the regional structure and explaining to them how they can use me as a resource. You can view the on boarding presentation here. It was super great to begin getting to know the new chapter leads and to strategize initial outreach with them, for example plugging applications so that they can create a core team. I’m looking into setting up a call with a bunch of the chapter leads for the region so that some of the more experienced chapter leads can help serve as mentors for the newer chapter leads, which I am hoping will be a great resource for the chapters just starting out. This week I also will meet with the whole regional outreach team to identify new goals for the next several months. I am also hoping to brainstorm some new projects that we can work on and to identify ways to still be effective in our outreach even during quarantine. I think that everything got super crazy before Earth Week because there was so much that had to get done, so I am hoping to regroup everyone and get feedback on everything that we have done so far. I’m excited for what we decide to spend our time doing over the next several months.
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Overview of My InquiryFor my US Youth Climate Strike (USYCS) Inquiry I hope to learn what it means to work at the national level in order to organize and create change in our country. I will work with the National Outreach Team in order to develop partnerships around the country for the chapters of USYCS to be able to gain support from. I will work with my team in order to find partners and develop lasting relationships with them. Climate justice will not happen if we do not work with other organizations. The partnerships will help each state’s chapter to further develop themselves and create more of an impact on the state’s government leaders.
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