Youth Organizing
Organizing SF high school youth to get involved and take action in their communities.
Join us this Summer 2026!
We meet Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 3:30-6pm. We are currently accepting applications.
Youth MOJO
Youth MOJO develops the leadership of Chinese high school youth in San Francisco, with a focus on social issues such as housing, education, immigration, and workers’ rights. Participants develop critical thinking, leadership, communication, advocacy and organizing skills. Our program aims to empower youth to make a positive and lasting change in their community!
During the summer, youth have an opportunity to participate in the Youth MOJO Summer Program and the Youth Leadership Retreat, where members develop and strengthen their leadership, public speaking, communication, advocacy, and organizing skills.
Meeting Info
During Summer 2026, MOJO meets Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 3:30-6pm. Apply here!
During the school year, MOJO meets most Fridays.
Enoki Collective
** This is a past program offering **
The Enoki Collective is a program for young women and trans, gender nonconforming youth (TGNC) to explore the intersections of gender oppression, race, class, and culture. Youth will build their leadership and facilitation skills, learn and build their analysis in different topics and find healing and community with like minded peers. Topics include feminisms and patriarchy, history of women’s rights, reproductive justice, LGBTQ identities, healthy relationships and boundaries, and more. We welcome all those who are ready to dismantle patriarchy and toxic masculinity in our community!
Young Men’s Circle
** This is a past program offering **
Young Men’s Circle (YMC) is a space for young Asian American cis men to connect with one another about their experiences and tie those experiences to systems of oppression and the potential impact they can make towards gender justice. Through YMC, young men will have a peer learning space to develop their leadership for the sake of their own healing and transformation; redefining masculinity and vulnerability on our own terms.
Common Roots
** This is a past program offering **
Common Roots is a joint project of CPA and People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER). It was founded in 1998 as a collaborative leadership program serving low-income Chinese and Latinx youth in San Francisco.
Chinese and Latinx youth have led campaigns advocating for environmental justice, safe working conditions, community gardens, and transit justice to fight against the structures of environmental racism that our communities face. Youth also engage in hands-on learning at community gardens and farms, connecting to our cultural and ancestral knowledge of food, land, and medicine.