Participants gained practical skills in grassroots organizing, learned how to mobilize communities, engage in outreach, and sustain long-term movements. Organizers emphasized healing justice, creativity, and community building throughout this experience.
"I feel like this opportunity was one of the best of my life, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to make a change,” said one Chicago youth. “Just gaining the knowledge and spending the time I have with the Chicago team has me thinking about more ways for me to create a greater positive impact in the future.”
Douglas Juárez is from Guatemala with studies in political science and experience on social projects with civil society with emphasis on capacity building, advocacy, and human rights. He serves as AFSC's Latin America and Caribbean Advocacy coordinator. As a member of the regional leadership team, Douglas leads AFSC’s advocacy and policy strategies, supporting both, the Peace with social justice and the Migration justice regional programs by building and supporting coalitions and mobilizing constituencies to protecting and expanding political spaces so that people historically impacted by systems of oppression in the region can participate and influence decision-making focused on social, environmental, and migration justice.
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