BACKGROUND
Youth Speaks is an established youth arts education organization celebrating 25 years of amplifying youth voice for positive social change in 2021. During this time, YS established a brand and global online reach within the field of youth voice, spoken word, and SLAM poetry to “advance the movement” aka, create large-scale social change.

OUR MISSION
Through the intersection of arts education and youth development practices, civic engagement strategies, and high quality artistic presentation, Youth Speaks creates safer spaces that challenge young people to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of societal change.

APPROACH
A major focus within Youth Speaks over the last three years has been to shift our internal practices towards an anti-oppression, liberatory framework, employing transformative justice in the planning and delivery of our work.