Youth on Root

Youth on Root provides wraparound support to youth from frontline environmental justice communities at every stage of their organizing journey. We’re flipping the narrative on who the ” experts ” are in the environmental and climate field.

Based in California, Youth on Root’s mission is to center low-income youth and youth of color as change agents in their communities by providing tools for learning from each other and opportunities to use their unique power to promote environmental justice. We envision a self-sustaining grassroots movement led by youth who have meaningful opportunities to enact their visions of environmental justice for their communities.