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Tiago Correia '12, Omo Moses (founder of The Young People's Project and son of Robert Moses '56), Leide Cabral '11, Denise Ghartey '12
Tiago Correia '12, Omo Moses (founder of The Young People's Project and son of Robert Moses '56), Leide Cabral '11, Denise Ghartey '12
Student leaders of The Young People’s Project at Hamilton College participated in the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in Raleigh, N.C., in April. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) celebrated its 50th anniversary by bringing past and current civil rights leaders together at Shaw University in North Carolina. SNCC emerged from a group of meetings led by civil rights activist Ella Baker and became one the main players in the sit-in movements and freedom rides during the 1960’s. Robert Moses ’56, SNCC member and prominent civil rights leader, became one of the lead organizers in the Mississippi Delta fighting for voter registration rights.

During this 4-day conference, the leaders of The Young People’s Project at Hamilton College (YPP@HC), site director Leide Cabral ’11 and coordinators Tiago Correia ’12 and Denise Ghartey ’12, attended several events discussing the past and present civil rights activism. Hamilton’s YPP student leaders, along with Hector Acevedo ’08, presented their work on the development of YPP@ Collegiate, a national network of college students teaching math literacy workshops to middle school students.

The YPP@ Collegiate model focuses on developing leaders within the college as well as local underprivileged communities. Ghartey joined a panel of YPP representatives to discuss Hamilton’s work with conference attendees. With this great momentum, YPP@HC hopes to help develop the model at other colleges and universities to create a network of influential college students supporting their communities across the country.

The mission of YPP is to use math literacy as a tool to develop young leaders and organizers who radically change the quality of education and life in their communities, so that all children have the opportunity to reach their full human potential. YPP has been able to bridge the gap between math literacy and social justice; the organization has started many initiatives across the country that will one day improve the quality of life for low-income communities. Students at Hamilton College are trained to develop and facilitate workshops to students in the Utica middle schools.

The Young People’s Project @ Hamilton College was made possible in 2009-10 with funding from The Kirkland Endowment, The Bonners Leaders Program in the Levitt Center, and The Diversity and Social Justice Project.

The Kirkland Endowment and the Renyi Student Leadership Development Fund provided funding for the student leaders of YPP@HC to attend the conference.

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