About
ABOUT POWERFUL VOICES
Powerful Voices’ mission is to create brave spaces with BIPOC girls & gender expansive youth to take charge of their own power as leaders, igniting their abilities to confidently express themselves, build community, and act against injustices affecting their lives.
Since 1995, Powerful Voices has provided support for youth of color in and outside schools and the juvenile justice system. We provide social justice-focused experiences for BIPOC girls & gender expansive youth ages 11-19. We work mostly with youth who reside or attend school in greater
Seattle or King County.
Powerful Voices has a deep commitment to shared leadership, transparency, authentic relationship building, opportunities for growth, community-care, and wellness - all of which lead to a work culture that is affirming, supportive, and infused with gratitude and celebration. We aim to have a fully BIPOC staff with preference for folks most directly impacted by patriarchy, including trans & cis women, nonbinary folks, trans men and transmasculine folks, Two Spirit people, and gender expansive people with other intersecting identities that provide them a unique cultural lens.
Overall, Powerful Voices builds a space where girls and gender expansive youth of color feel brave enough to share their truths with us and then the world. In service to our young folx, we are searching for individuals who align and contribute to promoting these values.
VALUES ALIGNMENT
We hold each other to our values of anti-adultism, anti-racism, social justice activism, and transparency. How we define these values:
- Anti-Adultism - belief that young folx are the experts of their own experiences and we must work to shift and increase the power of young folx. Adultism is where adults have unearned power over young people that is reinforced by institutions and social norms.
- Anti-racism - actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of marginalized racial groups.
- Social justice - the active commitment for equal opportunity, treatment, and rights in health, economic, education, political, and juvenile justice systems that is centered in community building, collective care, and mutual liberation.
- Activism - movement and action to bring about social and systemic change; in our programs, we provide activism curriculum that encourage BIPOC girls and gender expansive youth to develop critical thinking, knowledge and skills so they can act to make the world a better place.