OurMission

Our mission is to help end racism and systemic biases through community engagement, direct mutual aid, education and curriculum reform, youth empowerment programming, and the arts.

We are a volunteer-run, grassroots community organization; a collective of youth, professionals, educators, mentors, and friends standing up for the rights of all the disparaged and marginalized in our communities.

We formed in June of 2020, as a response to the murder of George Floyd and in tandem with the growing movement for social justice in the United States. Our founder, Benjamin Bacote, is a high school humanities teacher, father of three, and Black. He followed the lead of his then 13-year old son, heading to the town common to march, and answered the plea of one of his former students, a graduate who wants to ensure that the students in his wake are taught an updated curriculum.