EYEJ: Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice

08/15/2022

RSVP TODAY: The EYEJ Town Hall will discuss the digital divide, voting, democracy, and how youth can use their voices to be changemakers. This year's event is sponsored by The George Gund Foundation, a stalwart EYEJ partner.

Distinguished guests from PCs for People and The Center for Community Solutions will explore the digital divide's past, present, and future and what it will take for greater digital equity and access for all.

RSVP today at http://bitly.ws/tnmN

Discuss the issue of the digital divide with local Cleveland students as well as non-profit leaders

08/12/2022

On Monday, August 15, join past and current members of the EYEJ Youth Council for the 5th Annual Town Hall. Each year, the Town Hall presents an opportunity for EYEJ to reflect on and celebrate our social justice work while reflecting on the issues that impact youth across Cleveland.

This year, we will have a robust conversation exploring the past, present, and future of the digital divide led by our distinguished guests from PCs for People and the Centers for Community Solutions. Together we will discuss how far we have come and what it will take for greater digital equity and access for all.

The EYEJ Town Hall is a FREE event open to all! You can RSVP today at: http://bitly.ws/tnmN

We hope to see you there!

07/12/2022

Please join the EYEJ team in welcoming our new Co-Executive Director, Mr. Jeremy Langham! We hope you will stay engaged with the organization as we embark on this exciting new chapter. Read the welcome message from Co-Founder and Board Emeritus Mai Moore and learn more about Jeremy's commitment to social justice.

06/20/2022

EYEJ: Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice is embarking on a new journey!

The organization is undergoing exciting new changes that we cannot wait to share with you. Read this important message from Mai Moore about the organization's next phase and how you can support its ongoing work.

Let's embark on this new phase of EYEJ's work together!

06/06/2022

👩🏽‍🎓Turn your pain into purpose.

🎓Yesterday, our Co-Founder; Mai Moore was Commencement Speaker at Promise Academy’s 2022 spring graduation where she celebrated the graduates.

🎉 Mai spoke about being curious, being proactive, to focus and follow your dreams and create the change within yourself and your community that you want to see, what are you waiting for, the ups and downs of life, to not give up and how magical it is that you have yourself.

👏🏽Congratulations to Promise Academy’s 2022 Graduates.

🎓

05/25/2022

❤️6th graders showing love for our community from in light of the recent school shooting in our YDJ session today

🗣Young people expressed their frustration that nowhere is safe to them anymore

✋🏼Discussions were had about how do we stop glorifying fights and violence and dramatic change is needed

❗️Students mentioned the need for exercise, more resources, needing mental health help, making better choices before saying mean things, bullying, or fighting because they see the trajectory of where this leads too

❓How can we empower our young people better and empower their ideas for a safer and better community? How can we support prevention?

05/20/2022

🎉 Great job to Tremont 6th graders sharing their story and photograph relating to social justice for our last YDJ: Youth Discussing Justice session for the school year!

☮️ Stories shared ranged from the value of connecting, family and friendship to police reform to healthy foods in schools to envioronment and animals to video games and football.

🏆 Students won prizes including t-shirts made from .universe!

💪🏽Courage, leadership and collective decision making and the power of voting were displayed in choosing the winners.

Future Changemakers in the making!

05/14/2022

🔥Congratulations to all of the graduates of 2022 🎉🎉🎉

🎓Be proud of yourself in this great accomplishment

🙇Thank you for moving EYEJ forward

🎈We can't wait to see how you will continue being a Changemaker in your community!

05/11/2022

👀Watch out for 9-11th grade Mosaic students from who spent the day with us.

🧑🏿🧑🏾🧑🏻will create positive change being Changemakers advocating for a Mental Health Day at their school. EYEJ’s Why be a Changemaker session (from tactics taught to the EYEJ Youth Council) taught how to create change in 30 min!

05/08/2022

💐🧑🏻🧑🏼🧑🏽🧑🏾🧑🏿🧑Happy Mother’s Day to our Co-Founder, the Founders, to EYEJ team members, advisors, board directors, consultants, past, current and future, volunteers, partners, to the EYEJ Youth Council, Millennial Task Force members, YDJ students, advocates, to Principals, teachers, friends of EYEJ, to community, ally’s and donors.

Thank you for being a mother to empower young people to advocate for change.

05/06/2022

⭐️Awesome volunteers for YDJ: Youth Discussing Justice

❗️Topic: The Power of Storytelling leading to Photography

👩🏽‍🎓Diverse stories and photographs shared from adults and youth ranging from death and rebirth, black boys, homelessness, housing and opportunities for investing in community development to diverse cultures and relating to people demonstrating how we can all relate
and how our stories and photographs can lead to respect for each other, and each other’s cultures, builds understanding, culture, community and compassion

🔌🔋Powerful! We can’t wait to hear the youths stories and see their photographs in 2 weeks!

05/04/2022

🎉 Congratulations Congresswoman and Rep. 🎊🥳👏🏽. We’re excited for movement forward.

🙏🏽 Thank you for your continued fight for justice.