How young people decide to define resistance is very much so dependent on their own experiences, their own ways of resisting as well as their own ways of realizing the ways that resistance may be futile and pointless and still choosing to push back against the ideas anyway.

The impact of individual youth workers on the center’s culture make it a second home, cultivating the long-term relationships that are cornerstone to the AYE’s existence.

By valuing the types of knowledge and experiences of young people, community- based educational organizations become a reimagined reality.