Interns

Kansas City interns January 2013

From left: AFSC KC Program Coordinator Ira Harritt; interns Isabella Fassi, Pearl Webb and Joshua Smith; and Interim Regional Director Margaret Jackson gather at the January 2013 showing of the Kansas City entries in AFSC’s If I Had a Trillion Dollars youth film festival.

 

From organizing training to video production to spoken word art, three youth interns in AFSC’s Kansas City office are completing a productive, creative school year’s worth of peacemaking.

Pearl Webb, Isabella Fassi and Joshua Smith recently spoke with Jon Krieg about the impact of their work on the youth involved and on themselves. To read the full interviews, please click here.

DACA in JC

The Rally for Tuition Equity for DREAMers and the public hearing where Jersey City’s officials passed the resolution* unanimously was an incredible experience. The tuition equality bill, currently pending before the New Jersey legislature, would allow the so-called NJ DREAMers (a term used to describe undocumented students who were brought to the United States at a young age) equal access to higher education in the state through paying in-state tuition rates.

Pearl Webb and Isabella Fassi, KC interns 2012

AFSC Kansas City interns Isabella Fassi, left, and Pearl Webb unfold a graphic demonstrating that 60% of discretionary federal spending goes to the Pentagon. The seated students are from Paseo Arts Academy.

Pearl Webb, Isabella Fassi, and Joshua Smith started interning with AFSC in August 2012, to lead youth civic engagement and social action projects in the Kansas City area. Along with Program Coordinator Ira Harritt, the interns teach high school-aged youth about issues in their communities, injustice in the U.S., and how they can help put an end to the injustice and promote greater peace.

Barbara (left) and Debbie (right)

This spring, AFSC Chicago brought in two new interns to work in collaboration with staff members and local area high school students to help educate, organize and team up with the community of Chicago for the upcoming NATO Summit in May.  They have been working on: