LEGACY Youth Project

Ethnic Studies & Social Justice program committed to the healing, transformation & liberation of #NapaValley youth. Serving 5-12th #ScholarWarriors 💛✊🏽

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Just posted a photo @ Napa, California https://t.co/0WxRQROhUM

[Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies @LiberatedESC]

"Spurred by the raging debate over what children should learn in school, education activists have formed the new Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies (CLES). The Coalition builds on past generations of struggle for Ethnic Studies." https://t.co/J5936OVhA1

[Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies @LiberatedESC]

Join us for our next general membership meeting on October 16th. Zoom registration: https://t.co/YGyVuclLlR

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

¡HOY! @nvcollege @LYPheartwork #ethnicstudies

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

¡HOY! @nvcollege @LYPheartwork #ethnicstudies

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

We Are Still Here: The Legacy Youth Project & the Movement for Ethnic Studies. Wednesday, October 5, 5:30PM at the Napa Valley College Cultural Center. Teacher Activist Yolanda Ayala & Carlos Hagedorn will share palabra on the Legacy Youth Project & Ethnic Studies Movement.

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Big solidarity thank you to @VOHSNapa, maestro Strole & his estudiantes for inviting LYP co-founder Carlos Hagedorn to his classes. It was an honor to share our Ethnic Studies story & learn/hear from the students. We still here. #weareethnicstudies #heartwork #napavalley

[AcostaEdPartnership @AEPEdConsulting]

Our @AEPEdConsulting team, @CurtisAcostaLLP & @cecuauhtemoc will keynote and share their Ethnic Studies stories at the 2022 Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Schools Conference is here! Virtual.
June 20th-23rd. Register: https://t.co/c55KDdMUlD @trussleadership

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Directions: draw what our palabras look like for you in the Legacy Youth Project.
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In Lak’Ech + Heartwork = In Heart’Ech ❤️✊🏽🙏🏽
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#heartwork #inlakech #ethnicstudies #napavalley

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Practicing Ethnic Studies community responsiveness meant centering the voices, knowledges and hearts of our youth and familias. We learned from their creation. #heartwork #ethnicstudies #communityresponse #napavalley

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Heartwork & In Lak’Ech was central to the LYP. Our 5th-12th grade Ethnic Studies pathway program served at 5 schools, influencing, transforming & becoming an instrumental part of each school’s community culture. Artist: LYP youth. #heartwork #ethnicstudies #napavalley

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

In the LYP we showed up for each other cada día. We supported each other cada día. We navigated a system not built for us cada día. We lived and practiced In Lak’Ech cada día. ¡LYP por la vida! #heartwork #ethnicstudies #napavalley #inlakech

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

In Lak'ech
Tú eres mi otro yo. / You are my other me.
Si te hago daño a ti, /If I do harm to you,
Me hago daño a mi mismo. /I do harm to myself.
Si te amo y respeto, /If I love and respect you,
Me amo y respeto yo. /I love and respect myself. #heartwork #ethnicstudies #napavalley

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

The Legacy Youth Project: An Ethnic Studies story of activism, transformation, resistance, joy and radical love. #ethnicstudies #heartwork #napavalley #weareethnics

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

The radical love that was cultivated, given, received and shared can never be taken away from anyone who experienced a day in the Legacy Youth Project. We are Ethnic Studies. #heartwork #ethnicstudies #radciallove #napavalley #weareethnicstudies

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

In Lak’Ech
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Tú eres mi otro yo.
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Si te hago daño a ti; me hago daño a mi mismo.
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Si te amo y respeto; me amo y respeto yo.
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#inlakech #heartwork #ethnicstudies #napavalley

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Our greatest achievement was to witness our youth grow to love themselves. When society didn’t see them, was otherized or saw them as the problem, we taught them to love themselves. Dignidad is measured in our hearts & actions. That’s Ethnic Studies!

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Our LYP story & the institutional dismantling of the only Ethnic Studies program in the Napa Valley has been published in the Ethnic Studies Journal, Kalfou, “The ‘Essential Worker’ in the Time of Corona: Ethnic Studies and a Legacy Canceled in the Napa Valley.” #ethnicstudies

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

Youth created:
- introductions (w. inlak’ech) explanation of in lak’ech
- 3 or 4 legacy student stories
- reflections of the stories
- Heartwork from within to not fix us but to help us grow into humanized human beings
- Reflections
- Close out (Isang Bagsak) #ethnicstudies

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

The Legacy Youth Project was beyond a class and curriculum. Our 5th-12th Ethnic Studies program was a practice of developing consciousness, heartwork, healing, service, joy, love, solidarity and In Lak’Ech. #heartwork #ethnicstudies #napavalley

[LEGACY Youth Project @LYPheartwork]

The Legacy Youth Project was beyond a class and curriculum. Our 5th-12th Ethnic Studies program was a practice of developing consciousness, heartwork, healing, service, joy, love, solidarity and In Lak’Ech. #heartwork #ethnicstudies #napavalley #sisterhood