We are a global community of youth activists and adult allies  

Our goal is to accelerate the process of young people influencing, designing, and transforming their learning experiences and education systems.

Started in 2020

YXY began as a 3 day learning experience to evolve our conscious activism, radical reimagination and co-creative action to transform our education.
Now we are aiming to ignite a global movement to transform our learning and education!
We believe in a liberated world where education is an experience that serves all of us as young people, as well as our communities and the planet.
Let’s take a step towards love, belonging and embodying an intentionally anti-oppressive world together.
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A world where learning serves everyone: us, our communities, and the planet!

The Current Problem:
Dominant Industrial Education System

Designed To Serve Our Economies

Social Fractures

Rooted In Colonial Ideology

Core practices

Raising young people's awareness about the role of education in perpetuating the status-quo.
Creating prefigurative safe spaces (i.e. spaces where we practice showing up as if the future we wish to create is already there) for young people to connect, learn, and be in solidarity with one another.
Supporting young people in reclaiming their learning and in influencing and designing their education systems.
Support young people in being creators of a New Story instead of perpetrators of the Old (and destructive) Story of Separation
Building and joining broad alliances towards the transformation of education.

Co-Organized By

Zineb
Zineb
She / Her

Co-Founder of The Weaving Lab

Advisor of The Metachangemakers Project

Education Advisory Board of the youth-led organization The Reclamation Project

Researcher and Co-Author of Investing in Knowledge Sharing to Advance SDG4

Medium tinkering writer

Longtime youth activist & advocate

Valentina
Valentina
She / Her

Co-Founder of The Weaving Lab

Education Director for Students Shoulder-to-Shoulder

Board Member of EmpowerEd

Advisory Board Member of Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School

Contributing author & editor of Changemakers: Educating with Purpose

Co-Creator of We ArtPlay

Erioluwa
Erioluwa
He / Him

Global Community Organizer at YouthxYouth

Co-founded 21st Century Teachers Program 

Contributor, The first citizens Global Assembly 

Mentor, MIT COVID-19 AFRICA CHALLENGE 

Alumnus, US Exchange program

Global Youth Ambassador, TheirWorld  

Youth Activist and Author, Storyteller.

In Co-Creation with our Hosts

Meet our team of youth facilitators for the youth activist programs.
Meet The Hosts

With Gratitude to the following Contributors

Ron Berlinski, YxY Host and Activist, for the design of this awesome website.

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Estefanía Cardona Forero, Olatomiwa Isaac Olusesi, and Success Yole Areeveso for serving on our Core Operations Team in preparation for our second annual Learning Festival. We additionally thank Estefanía for her original vision and leadership of the Youth’s Voice, our youth-led magazine and her project developed in our Global Actions Circles program.


Antoine Beland for serving as a Host Mentor throughout our Global Action Circles program and Core Team member for the entirety of our first year as an organization.


Jessica Spencer-Keyse for co-creating the foundation of our YxY community and process.


Curriculum for Life for their fiscal sponsorship and co-creation of our Global Action Circles program!


Enrol Yourself for their partnership in co-designing our Global Action Circles program.

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Ernest & Rose Samuels Foundation for their grant that is making possible all of our 2022 Activist Programs.

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COLT for the design of our branding and awesome YxY logo.

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