Changemaker Youth Grants: Final Showcase & Closing Ceremony
June 25th 9-11am PT / 10am-12pm MT / 11am-1pm CT / 12-2pm ET
Join us to celebrate the inaugural Changemaker Youth Grants at the Final Showcase & Closing Ceremony! The nine awardees and their teams will show photos and videos, and speak about their creative projects to address violence. Everyone is welcome and Pace e Bene encourages our community of nonviolence friends to come support and celebrate the youth. Friends, family, and local supporters are also warmly welcomed!
This event is free, but registration is required. Register using the form below.
2022 Changemakers
LaTayla Billingslea, Georgia
Prevention of Violence Through the Arts is a summit where youth and young adults use the arts to address violence and gun violence prevention, including through poetry and spoken word, dance, visual art, creative writing and essay writing, and song.
Leila Chavez, Washington
A multigenerational, multimedia climate artivism (art as activism and artful activism) showcase, created by the local community, addressing the causes and solutions of the climate crisis.
Alejandro Abarca, Texas
Photographic portrait series humanizing unhoused friends and community members and showing the systemic injustices that lead to homelessness. Large prints of the images will be pasted onto public walls and/or displayed in a gallery for public viewing.
Bridget Nsimenta, Uganda
A group of youth will start two coffee plant nurseries which will then distribute trees to 10-15 rural families in Uganda to interrupt cycles of poverty and domestic violence.
Kailey Furino, Oregon
The high school student council and two other art students will create a cafeteria-sized mural on inclusion and anti-bullying.
Abigail Asare, Washington
A podcast series addressing inequalities in education and how they disproportionately impact poor and BIPOC youth.
Keyla Park Hernandez, Maryland
An art education project that engages youth in making posters about the climate crisis, leading to a march in Washington, DC, by the participants.
Savi Holden, Wisconsin
An educational series of short Youtube videos exploring the many aspects of nonviolence and nonviolent action.
Lyla Sinback & Sofiya Partra
The project is a video PSA to spread awareness about youth gun violence by interviewing survivors of gun violence and showing statistics of gun safety in Tennessee.