2021—

This year has some incredibly exciting updates for Creating for Justice. In addition to our continued work through individual services and anti-racist collaborations, we are launching our first two community projects: The Student Ambassador Program and Fuel the Artist. We hope for both of these initiatives to become lifelong, recurring events — please read more about them!

Hannah Roberts, CFJ's Student Ambassador, is spearheading an effort to diversify curricula and empower students in high schools across the United States. Through our innovative Student Ambassador Program, high school students from around the country will meet once a month to discuss specific issues they're facing in their schools and brainstorm constructive ways to catalyze change.

This program encourages activism at any age and takes a specific interest in giving voice to those who cannot yet affect change at the ballot box. To learn more or get involved, email us!

COVID-19 disproportionately affected communities of color, with significant consequences for BIPOC artists and students.

To combat this, Creating for Justice is launching its first solo community project: Feed the Artist. The objective is to employ BIPOC artists whose livelihoods have been negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. CFJ will work with each artist to develop an eight-week curriculum, which the artist will teach to students at underserved schools and community centers.

The benefits are two-fold. Firstly, CFJ hopes to alleviate some of the financial struggle forced upon BIPOC artists. The second aim is to provide students with the well-documented academic and social-emotional benefits of having teachers of color.