Jayy Covert
As Youth Leadership Integration Manager, Jayy leads the strategic development, implementation, and integration of Outright Vermont’s statewide youth organizing and leadership programming, with a focus on building power, amplifying youth voice, and cultivating new generations of queer and trans advocates. Jayy supports and strengthens Outright’s youth-led campaigns and statewide youth events, including leadership development opportunities, issue-based advocacy, and youth-directed organizing efforts, ensuring that youth priorities, voice and leadership are meaningfully integrated across all aspects of Outright’s work.
Growing up as a GSA youth in Florida, Jayy is passionate about supporting youth to create the spaces and communities they envision and organize for liberation. They learned from powerful queer Southern organizers while also connecting with other youth organizers from around the country during their time on the National Trans Youth Council.
They came to Vermont to study Secondary Education with additional focuses on Psychology and Social Justice at Champlain College. Field placements in middle school, experience in an elementary afterschool program, and guest speaking in multiple college courses have all shaped Jayy into a skilled facilitator and educator who can work in comfortable synergy with youth of all ages. They’re thrilled to once again be immersed in the world of youth organizing here at Outright.
In their down time, Jayy enjoys the quietness of Vermont’s rural landscape, raising a flock of ducks, and listening to podcasts about mythology and folktales.
