CRXLAB is Mobilizing Young Black and Latinx Leaders

We believe that it's critical to empower this rising generation of Black and Latinx youth voices. Our mission is to mobilize them to design interventions that challenge systems of oppression, inequity, and inequality.

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Our Theory of Change

Our mission is to educate, train, and challenge Black and Latinx Youth to become leaders in designing healthy and racially equitable communities.

To ensure that the future is equitable for all, we must equip young Black and Latinx leaders with…

 
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Community

A community for cultural healing, safety, and collective mobilization.

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Consciousness

The training and tools to build consciousness* around context, history, and power surrounding race and ethnicity in the United States.

Power

Access to historically centered power through institutions, funding, and resources.

 Our young leaders are co-creating a society that embraces the humanity, rights, and power of Black and Latinx people.

 How We Practice Our Mission

 
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Youth-Centered Programs

Through Youth-centered, intergenerational programming we are providing young leaders with the tools they need.

 
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Learning Engagements

It is not just on Youth to create the environment for them to lead. Our learning engagements help those in power shift their mindsets.

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“[CRXLAB] has allowed me to enter and advocate in spaces that historically I wouldn’t have felt comfortable doing so.”

Nora Garcia (she/her), Seeds of Power Fellow 2020

 The Impact of Our Movement*

 

441

Black and Latinx Youth mobilized as Redesigners for Justice™️.

7,254

Individual learners furthered in their equity journeys.

$100,356

In funds provided to young leaders for their time and contributions.

*Stats are only from the 2021 fiscal year.

 
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Take up your role in furthering the work of our Theory of Change.