Youth Organizing & Campaigns

Youth Power!

Youth Organizing Internship

Youth Organizers are young people aged 13-19 who are passionate about LGBTQ+ youth power and making a difference in their schools and communities.

Youth organizers work together as a team with each other, Outright staff, and their peers across the state to champion LGBTQ+ liberation and support statewide events.

Here’s what youth organizers can do:

Youth Organizers will work with each other, Outright staff, allied youth in their regions, and the statewide GSA network to develop and implement youth-centered programming. This can include Outright’s annual statewide events, regional gatherings, youth leadership trainings, and social events. You will develop essential skills through hands-on experience, including:

Networking and Relationship Building

Invite peers and friends into campaign projects and events
Share about Outright events to friends, clubs, and regional networks
Attend / support your school’s GSA and share resources that you learn about with your peers

Event Planning

Uplift events that are happening near you or that you’re supporting; invite other Youth Organizers to attend and support
Design events and activities for LGBTQ+ youth to connect and experience joy throughout the year

Campaign Building

Share stories and ideas about what priorities and issues are important to youth in your community
Implement local campaign activities and events for your community / region
Build a Power Map of your local community / region that showcases where change is happening or can happen

Youth Organizers Will Gain:

knowledge of what organizing is and how to do it
an understanding of the role of taking risks for goals and actions related to the LGBTQ+ youth community and liberation
an increase in skills and experiences around risk-taking
an understanding of how to fit into the work as activists, organizers, volunteers and more!

Although it's a stipend position, this isn’t a job - it’s a real-world opportunity for you to learn, grow, and discover how you want to have an impact.

Related Resources

Have Questions?

Jayy Covert
School Based Change Manager
jayy@outrightvt.org

Youth Campaigns

Here are some examples of what youth organizers are working on!

support trans youth

Gender-Affirming Resources (GAR)

Partner with Outright staff and Vermont medical professionals to create and distribute medically accurate and accessible educational materials on safe, healthy, and effective binding, tucking, and packing.
Research and coordinate purchasing and distribution of high-quality gender-affirming garments, at no cost, directly to youth who need them.
Work to end stigma for trans youth in their schools and communities.
Develop educational offerings to support trans youth who need gender-affirming resources.
Raise awareness about the importance and availability of gender-affirming resources. (Check out the youth-run GAR Instagram page!)

Complete the request form for GAR and we'll follow up soon.

For other resources, email Jayy Covert, School Based Change Manager, at jayy@outrightvt.org.

Join Us and Claim Your Voice

Youth Power in Education (YPE)

Bring queer and trans youth voice and power to the center of school-based change work.

Youth tell their own stories about the impact of queer and trans antagonism in their schools.
Youth adult co-facilitation as a way forward for sharing the truth about queer and trans youth.
Design and facilitate youth and adult-facing workshops to make schools freer and better for all.

Ready To Act

Emergence

This campaign was created to make a space where Youth Organizers can respond, collectively, to the world around us. Emergence refers to when a chance event or a new opportunity can lead to a positive/successful strategic change in direction. In some ways, this is the root of community organizing. We never know what the world is going to offer us, and in our new political environment where bodily autonomy is under attack, we know that what’s happening on a broader, more national scale can and will show up locally - in both challenging and empowering ways.

Let's Create Change Together!

Through youth-led campaigns, training weekends, regional groups and statewide events, youth organizers share in the work of building the base of youth ready to respond to the needs of their compatriots.

By learning, growing, and taking risks for liberation, youth organizers support Outright's work of centering youth voice and power.