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Humanities Amped students are working to create change in their communities with a number of recent initiatives. On September 27, with the support of local partners, the Humanities Amped Leadership and Restorative Justice class provided an invaluable opportunity for Baton Rouge residents to hear from their school board candidates at a candidate forum and, as Lauryn Knight, Humanities Amped junior pictured below, explains, “get a chance to see how the candidate would solve some of the problems in their districts.” Lauryn further notes that the “forum was very important because most people don’t go to the polls and vote. Most are uneducated about the people running so this gives them some insight on what they [the candidates] will do for the districts.” Through organizing and leading events such as this candidate forum, Humanities Amped students are actively working to create solutions to problems they have identified in their community.
Humanities Amped students are also in the early stages of developing a Youth Council of students from throughout the East Baton Rouge Parish School District who will continue this work of identifying problems and developing solutions at the district level. Lauryn describes this council as “students leading education in the right direction” and explains that “students are the ones that have a first hand experience about the schools and the problem within them.” This collective, guided by and comprised of passionate young people and supported by the National Educators Association, will meet regularly to bring together the perspective of students from throughout the district to create a more equitable, effective educational experience for all students.
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