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LA Upstander: In Lak'Ech Committee
Teachers created the In Lak'Ech (You Are My Other Me) Committee to create advisory lessons on topics such as allyship BLM, ABAR (Anti-Bias Anti-Racism), activism, public safety, and more.
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LA Upstander: Facing History Student Leadership Club "See No Stranger" Book Club
Facing History students share key learnings and ideas with students from both Southern and Northern California, from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.
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LA Upstander: The Wonders of Having a Disability Club
The “dynamic duo” , Katy M. and Francia G., have excelled academically and worked diligently to not allow their educational disabilities to limit their education in any way, shape or form.
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LA Upstander: Senior Memory Committee
This year, Esperanza College Prep graduates its first ever senior class! The Senior Memory Committee — Evi A., Gianella C., Esbeydi G., Brianna C., Mail G., Allison C., Maria G. —stepped up to plan, coordinate, and execute activities to mark this historical graduation.
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LA Upstander: Ms. Jessica Guillaume
Ms. Guillaume has been an Upstander in the Valor Academy High School school community by volunteering to lead in-person small groups this Spring 2020.
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Student Essay: Why I No Longer Hide My Rainbow
This student essay captures a gay student’s experience navigating the challenges inherent in being visible as a gay person, as well as the responsibility to honor the sacrifices of movement leaders past by being visible today.
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Student Essay: Congratulations! It's a Mockingbird
This award-winning student essay captures a transgender student’s experience reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and how it intersects with their own experiences of gender and hopes of social change.
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How to Be an Upstander: 5 Tips for Civic Dialogue in an Online World
In this short piece, Dr. Cara Berg Powers offers 5 easy strategies to help people have respectful conversations on the internet.
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How to Be an Upstander: How to Find Your Civic Superpower
This piece offers a number of ideas for getting involved in one’s community and beginning to pinpoint areas where we are each best poised to make an impact.
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Becoming an Upstander
Brian Fong shares his personal journey to becoming an upstander on a recent episode of the “Language Alchemy” podcast.
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Upstander Story: Memphis Students Unite Their Community 100 Years after a Lynching
This piece describes the student-led activist group Students Uniting Memphis’s effort to gather 500 community members to commemorate the life of lynching victim Ell Persons, and bring awareness to the injustices that occur when we divide people into “us” vs. “them.”
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