MISSION & VISION
MISSION
Youth Praxis exposes and confronts the systems that exclude young people from power—using journalism as a weapon for organized reinvestment.
We investigate how budgets, policies, and institutions erase youth from public life. We turn data into testimony, records into tools, and truth into strategy.
Our journalism is not for consumption—it is for coordination. We train youth as organizer-journalists who document injustice, mobilize community, and pressure decision-makers until commitments are made and enforced.
We reject extractive reporting that mines our pain. We practice journalism that returns power.
VISION
We envision a society where youth hold power over the systems that shape their lives—where reinvestment is not a favor, but a right earned through organized struggle.
We work toward communities where:
- Youth budgets are transparent, equitable, and community-controlled
- Every neighborhood has access to safe, resourced spaces for learning, healing, and creation
- Public institutions are accountable to youth, not to elites
- Data and truth belong to the people
- Youth voices don't perform for policy—they direct it
We measure success not in headlines, but in wins: policies changed, dollars redirected, systems rebuilt, and youth power consolidated.
Our work builds the infrastructure of self-determination—so that every young person can say, with evidence and dignity: "We are not asking to be included. We are demanding to govern."
CORE VALUES
Youth Power: Young people are not subjects of study—they are architects of change.
Systematic Analysis: We name systems, not symptoms. We expose design, not accident.
Collective Action: Individual stories become collective leverage. Organizing is the heartbeat of our journalism.
Evidence as Power: Documentation is a political act. Every record, map, and dataset becomes a tool for negotiation and resistance.
Dignity Always: We refuse deficit framing. We honor the full humanity, intelligence, and creativity of our communities.
Long-Term Commitment: We are not chasing moments. We are building a movement—with youth at the center of public accountability.
Investigating disinvestment. Organizing reinvestment. Building youth power.