Hello, my name is Rubi Mendez and I am a member of the Social Justice Club at Roger C. Sullivan High School. The Social Justice Club, better known as SoJo, was founded in 2019 after the Chicago Teachers Union Strike by me and another student. We decided to create the club after we saw our classmates standing in solidarity with teachers in picket lines and protesting downtown.

Rubi Mendez is currently a student at Roger C. Sullivan High School who is looking to study sociology next year. She hopes to become more of an active community member inside and outside school. She has worked to remove cops from her school and hopes to get more involved in the fight to defund the police. 

Located in Baltimore, MD, Bryan Vana is the Regional Communications Coordinator for the South Region of the American Friends Service Committee.