Get Involved

Get Involved

Participate in the movement

Want to find out more about the fight for education justice in your community? We’ve complied a shortlist of organizations across the country that are doing that work. While certainly not an exhaustive list, we see this interactive map as a starting place for those interested in learning more about (and hopefully starting or joining) organizations and coalitions!

National Organizations

• Advancement Project
• Alliance for Educational Justice
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Communities for Just Schools Fund 
• Dignity in Schools Campaign
• Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network
  
• Journey for Justice Alliance
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  
• Schott Foundation for Public Education

Alabama

• Southern Poverty Law Center

Arizona

• Puente Youth Movement (Phoenix) 

California

• ACLU of Southern California
• Black Organizing Project (Oakland)
• CADRE (Los Angeles)
• Coleman Advocates (San Francisco) 
• Dignity in Schools Campaign – California
• Labor Community Strategy Center (Los Angeles)
• Public Counsel
• Sacramento Area Youth Speaks
• Youth Justice Coalition (Los Angeles)

Colorado

• Padres & Jovenes Unidos 

Florida

• Dream Defenders
• Power U Center for Social Change (Miami)
• S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective

Georgia

• Gwinnett Parent Coalition to Dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline (SToPP)

Illinois

• Community Organizing and Family Issues (Chicago)
• Communities United (Chicago)
• Kenwood Oakland Community Organization 
• Logan Square Neighborhood Association (Chicago)
• Southwest Organizing Project  (Chicago)
• Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) 

Louisiana

• Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children  
• Rethink New Orleans

Maryland

• Baltimore Algebra Project

Minnesota

• Twin Cities Innovation Alliance, Minneapolis

Mississippi

• Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc., Duck Hill
• Activists with a Purpose Plus, Grenada
• Nollie Jenkins Family Center, Lexington
• Southern Echo- Jackson, MS
• Sunflower County Parents and Students, Indianola
• Tunica Teens in Action

New York

• African American Policy Forum
• Desis Rising Up and Moving
• Dignity in Schools Campaign – NYC
• Girls for Gender Equity
• Make the Road NY
• National Black Women’s Justice Institute 
• Teachers Unite

North Carolina

• Education Justice Alliance (Wake County)

Ohio

• Racial Justice Now! (Dayton)

Oregon

• Portland Parent Union

Pennsylvania

• ACLU of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Philadelphia Student Union

Texas

• Texas Appleseed (Austin)

Virigina

• Advocates for Justice – Henrico Coalition
• I Vote for Me

Washington D.C.

• Critical Exposure
• Racial Justice Now (DC, Maryland, Virginia Metro Area)

Wisconsin

• Freedom, Inc. (Madison)