We are a global community of youth activists and adult allies
Started in 2020
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.

Our Vision
Theory of Change
We believe that in order to transform our education at scale, globally, and rapidly enough, we need a youth-led, adult-supported (r)evolution of our education.
The Current Problem:
Dominant Industrial Education System
Designed To Serve Our Economies

Moreover, in a world marked by multiple intersecting crises (climate change, rising inequality, loss of species, etc.), young people are struggling to find their place and to find meaning. This is clear when we look at the declining youth mental health (according to the World Health Organization, one in seven 10 to 19-year-olds is experiencing a mental disorder) and the rise of new phenomenons like eco-anxiety. Young people are missing spaces to engage authentically with the problems of our time in order to make sense of them and address them effectively.
Social Fractures
Our traditional education system is not fit to prepare young people for the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world they are entering into. We also recognize that as much as the Industrial education model was an incredible advancement for humanity, it is not designed to serve us (people, places, and planet).

Rooted In Colonial Ideology

Core practices
Co-Organized By
In Co-Creation with our Hosts

With Gratitude to the following Contributors
Ron Berlinski, YxY Host and Activist, for the design of this awesome website.
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!
Huddlecraft for their partnership in co-designing our Global Action Circles program.
Ernest & Rose Samuels Foundation for their grant that is making possible all of our 2022 Activist Programs.
COLT for the design of our branding and awesome YxY logo.