Chicago Mobile Makers, Studio Gang and the Goldin Institute have joined forces to launch the Youth Design Leadership (YDL) project to design a new hands on 6-month program for teens to promote neighborhood safety by using the tools of design to help reclaim, connect and improve public spaces.

Chicago Peace Fellow Frank Latin launched the ‘New Westside Stories’, an urban news show based on Chicago’s West side as well as a new podcast series discussing issues facing BIPOC led non-profits. The purpose of both projects is to establish platforms where communities can utilize technology to engage in powerful and more balanced storytelling, doing so can have a profound impact in redefining our communities.

The Goldin Institute invites you to learn about each of our 2021 Chicago Peace Fellows representing 14 neighborhoods across the city as they join together and establish a community of practice determined to promote peace across the city!

Dieudonne Allo (South Africa) and Jacquelyn Moore (USA) are joining forces to convene young people with an interest in STEM and Robotics from Chicago and Port Alfred to collaborate as a unified team to compete in the FIRST® Innovation Challenge.

A group of revolutionary practitioners who were young contemporaries working in parallel or coordination with Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party came together more than 50 years later to reminisce about those times and how and if they were illuminated by the new film Judas and the Black Messiah.

One For One had to pivot to support youth in their program while staying true to their mission of meeting the kids where they are at: listening, learning and helping them in any ways that are needed.

In 2020, Mindfulness Leader recorded the highest number of programs since its inception; 36 programs involving 1,502 children. This year, Mona Antwan is on a mission to expand to meet the demands of over 7,000 youth on the waiting list.

In a world where the dominant narrative of womanhood rests in the experiences and viewpoints of white women, Women’s History Month poses the perfect time to underscore the value and power in an inclusive global sisterhood.

The fact is, as a Black woman, I’m tired. I am tired of the stereotypes placed upon our Black girls being slaughtered in the streets and even in their own beds. But I won’t give up and I invite you to join this fight with me.

In 2021, International Women’s Day (IWD) runs the risk of becoming as commodified as Mother’s Day, Labor Day, and Christmas. Chicago Peace Fellow Marvinetta Woodley Penn of Global Girls calls us to take action.