IT IS HAPPENING AROUND US Zine By students of the Environmental Justice Changemakers Spring 2025 / Von Steuben High School / Chicago Public Schools.
In a society where young people have limited «power» and often feel incapable of doing great things, we find clarity in the mist, a place that allows us to experiment, raise our voices, and dedicate our time and hearts to great things and opportunities. In the ASM environment justice program, we find ourselves and have decided to create this «magazine» to express our ideas and solutions to problems in our community. Many times, small and continuous changes lead to big results. So we ask the reader to put their heart into these pages and seek inspiration in making small but big changes in their community.
ADVOCACY Radio Show, youth for environmental justice in Chicago / Summer 2024 / Peterson Elementary School / Chicago Public Schools
Throughout the Summer, I worked with the Carole Robertson Center for Learning and After School Matters to develop the Environmental Justice Changemakers program. During six weeks and 160 hours, we developed a participatory process to open a conversation about enviromental justice inequity in the city of Chicago. Students 14 to 16 years old and from different High Schools from across the city expressed their experiences with the struggles their neighborhoods face, including contaminated water, soil, and air. As a result of the collaborative process, which used methods including storymaps, visual dialogues and participatory design, students developed the ADVOCACY Radio Show: Youth for environmental justice in Chicago . They developed this program with the intention of bringing awarness to their communities and to amplify their voices to improve the policies and services that serve citizens inteads of big companies and corporations. They spoke from their experience and in their own words. They presented a live radio broadcast on WZRD Chicago 88.3 FM the student and community led radio station located at Northeastern Illinois University NEIU. You can listen to the radio show by following this link and join the environmental justice conversation led by our youth.
Listen the ADVOCACY Radio Show, youth for environmental justice in Chicago.
Lucía Garcés Dávila 