Choice or Chance! Apply Today!

Become a community leader! Create exciting art and media peer education tools! Learn about your city!

This Spring, 12 students will be selected to work with RAP and the Center for Urban Pedagogy on an exciting arts and media project exploring the way our City’s school system actually works! The crew will explore questions like:

  • Who decides where we go to school?
  • What rights to teens have in school?
  • How do charter schools work?

Teens will get to use photography, videography, illustration to create real peer education tools for activists and teens throughout the city, to help them learn about and take control of choices about their education!

How To Apply

Apply online or complete a hard copy of the application and return it to Cait Gillies by email (gillies@resiliencelaw.org) or by mail (Resilience Advocacy Project — 154 Grand Street  New York, NY 10013).

Deadline: February 27, 2012

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Choice or Chance! Apply Today!

Become a community leader! Create exciting art and media peer education tools! Learn about your city! This Spring, 12 students will be selected to work with RAP and the Center for Urban Pedagogy on an exciting arts and media project exploring the way our City’s school system actually works! The crew will explore questions like: [...]

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Youth LEAP Applications Available!

RAP is recruiting teens, ages 16-19, who want to have an impact in their communities and who can commit to an exciting and demanding after-school program for nine months. Peer advocates meet twice each week to explore their communities, learn about young people’s legal rights, and develop the skills to become effective advocates for themselves [...]

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