ELSO, Inc. Guest Instructor Interest Form
Do you love your community, and social justice? DO YOU WANT TO SUPPORT YOUTH IN CREATING A BETTER COMMUNITY THROUGH DESIGN?
Be a Guest Instructor with the Your Street Your Voice Fall 2021 Virtual Cohort on climate justice!
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| The Rise and Resist activist group marches to demand climate and racial justice in New York, NY, on September 20, 2020. Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images |
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Your Street Your Voice (YSYV) and EmpowHER are after school project based learning programs where BIPoC and LGBTQ+ centered youth ages 14-20 get PAID to learn about the built environment and use design as a tool for racial justice. YSYV was created in response to the architecture, engineering, construction, and design (AECD) industry’s significant lack of representation of BIPoC professionals and addressing the career pipeline. EmpowHER was created to center Women/Femme/Trans/NB Youth, in design and community centered work. Both YSYV and EmpowHER are youth led, youth determined, fostering community relationships and advocacy.
Using a design studio format, YSYV and EmpowHER participants are asked: ‘If you could change one thing in your neighborhood through design, what would it be?’ Through collaboration with the AECD industry, and Community, YSYV & EmpowHER empowers students to be agents of change as designers and activists for justice in their own communities.
This fall, our virtual cohorts are focused on CLIMATE JUSTICE as RACIAL JUSTICE, Using ALL WE CAN SAVE, Design as Protest, Trauma Informed Care, Black Space Manifesto and Critical Race Theory as our foundations. Projects are youth determined, and youth developed, focusing on the following:
Climate Justice as Racial Justice in Built Environment
Climate Justice as Racial Justice in Physical INFRASTRUCTURE
Climate Justice as Racial Justice in COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Guest Instructors are BIPoC and LGBTQ+ centered individuals or allies who have experience in the AECD (architecture, engineering, construction, and design) industry and are interested in supporting 2-hour virtual cohort sessions during the upcoming fall season. We are seeking both experts to teach specific sessions and panelists for our Vital Voices public events, which are public events held on the last day of each cohort. Vital Voices panelists answer questions about their experiences in the industry and comment on student projects. Guest Instructors must be able to pass a background check as required by the Oregon Department of Education for positions that work directly with youth (Oregon State Department of Education Disqualifying Crimes 342.143). Training is provided, dates TBD.
SESSION DETAILS
The specific schedule for each Guest Instructor will be worked out with Program Director Jackie Santa Lucia once your interest form has been submitted. Guest Instructors can sign up for as many cohort sessions or Vital Voices events as they are interested in and available for, and are paid a $150 honorarium for each. Some guest instructors choose to gift their honorarium back to ELSO, Inc. as a tax-deductable donation, and you will have the option to indicate this below if you so choose. ELSO is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, tax ID: 83-1208258.
Note that as of September 14th the fall schedule has been pushed back 1 week - fall cohorts will now begin the week of September 28th and final Vital Voices events will be held November 16th and 17th
Fall 2021 Your Street Your Voice Sessions
September 21st - PUSHED
September 28th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Intro to Climate Justice & All We Can Save
October 5th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Advocate - Organizing
October 12th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: ReFrame- Storytelling
October 19th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Reshape - Infrastructure
October 26th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Persist - Building Community & Relationships
November 2nd - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Feel & Nourish- Work Session
November 9th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Rise- Work Session and presentation prep*
November 16th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Public Vital Voices Event!**
Fall 2021 EmpowHER Sessions
September 22nd - PUSHED
September 29th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Intro to Climate Justice & All We Can Save
October 6th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Advocate - Organizing
October 13th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: ReFrame- Storytelling
October 20th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Reshape - Infrastructure
October 27th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Persist - Building Community & Relationships
November 3rd - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Feel & Nourish- Work Session
November 10th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Rise- Work Session and presentation prep*
November 17th - 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Public Vital Voices Event!**
*These are the last cohort sessions before the public Vital Voices presentations
**These are the final cohort sessions and will be held as a public Vital Voices panel presentations
INTEREST FORM
Please fill out this interest form and Program Director Jackie Santa Lucia (jacquelyn@campelso.org) will be in touch to follow up about scheduling you as a guest instructor within 5 business days of submission.