AYEA Youth Organizers 2011

PALMER -- Ten far-flung Alaskan teens gave up their Labor Day weekends to gather in Palmer. Their mission: to defend wild Alaskan salmon and promote Real Food in their own communities. AYEA's annual Fall Project Planning Summit brought together rural and urban teens to learn how to turn ideas into action. Over three days, the youth gained skills in public speaking, storytelling, detail-oriented planning and direct action at Spring Creek Farm, an 800-acre hay farm at the foot of the Chugach and Talkeetna mountains. It was a serene, focused place to create community action project plans that the teens will accomplish during the 2011-2012 school year. Follow these youth organizers' projects here. Staff will be updating www.AYEA.org/YO all year with stories, photos and videos from their lives across Alaska.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Youth Empowerment
• Action
• Environment
• Organizers