Blueprint Summaries
Read about our fellows' self-designed Blueprint for Social Justice projects.
- Mary McLeod Bethune once said, “Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.” In this hour, her words could not be truer epsecially when speaking about sexual health education for young women who may be at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS and other STDS.
- My vision is for students of color, allies, staff and faculty at Bryn Mawr, who are or would like to get involved with social justice issues on campus, to feel supported by their peers and the administration to decrease burnout and increase positive social and structural changes relating to diversity on campus.
- My vision for the University of Pittsburgh is for the humanitarian and environmental student organizations to be united, efficient, and effective.
- I envision a community in which social justice work and rhetoric is fully integrated into our every day lives, and all the programming that we do so that the kids we work with will be more conscious of social justice issues, and power dynamics when they leave camp at the end of the summer.
- Here in Central Pennsylvania, we have many different kinds of people interested in doing something about climate change. First, our university is one of the leading research institutions investigating and projecting climate change and offering blueprints for how to deal with it.
- My vision for Columbus is one in which greater awareness is given to how class divides activists and organizations and creates a barrier preventing cooperation and mutual aid between them, so that we can overcome class issues and become a more cohesive and powerful network.
- As a representative of Oberlin College, particularly focused on environmental issues, my focus was on developing a plan to reframe environmentalism on campus as a more inclusive and diverse issue set.
- My vision is to gain a better understanding of the socioeconomic influences on health in New York City, share such findings with my campus and local community, and then use my findings to work collaboratively in order to improve the access to and quality of health care more broadly.
- I hope to see the students at the University of Illinois at Chicago completely involved with their surrounding community, serving and volunteering their time while becoming aware and active in social issues that affect our fellow citizens. This means that they will be active down the street, around the city, and across the country.
- To create a sustainable eco-friendly environment at DePaul University. In order to establish a working program, I will work with established University organizations and Student Government to create a sustainable program. Once DePaul creates an environmentally friendly program, I would like to implement it in other Chicagoland schools, colleges, and universities.
- My vision for my campus and community is one in which men from all communities mobilize against sexual and gender-based violence and fight for a new, healthier definition of masculinity.
- Amina Butt (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Reem Rahman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)We would like to see our campus consistently uphold and advocate civil rights, justice, and tolerance. In particular, religious discrimination against Muslims, and the ideas the allow it, would become unacceptable to the mainstream and majority society. Muslims should be understood and accepted within the rich fabric of American pluralism, not stereotyped and alienated. - My vision is to work alongside The Sankofa Saturday School for Children and create several programs that promote cultural and historical awareness in my community, in both children and adults. The school, which was recently brought to Queens, NY had a great start in November 2007 and I hope to add onto the curriculum and eventually hosts several cultural events.
- Frank Rodriguez (University of Texas at El Paso)
Rebecca Soto (University of Texas at El Paso)
Julie Cruz (University of Texas at El Paso)Mine Vote is a campus voting initiative designed to register, educate, and engage campus voters in the 2008 election. - My vision for my campus and my community is to create an inclusive environment for all students that identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or a supporting ally. My vision is to create a climate where all LGBT students are accepted and welcomed on campus.
- In 2006 The active YP4 fellows and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Inc. Delta chapter we able to have a positive affect on raising the voter turnout. Two years later the plan is to increase the electorate and intern increase voter turnout in the Dayton area and all over Ohio. The idea is to create a set of small Cells with the focus on Yp4 fellows as the nucleus.
- My vision for my campus is that within 2 years campus organizations and community groups can come together on shared beliefs of equity, partnership, respect and equality to face issues of oppression that are affecting their respective communities.
- My vision is to see the students at Hillsborough Community College become more engaged in the electoral process.
- The vision behind this blueprint is a well-developed cultural program that enhances and expands a current initiative in Liberty City, a region of Miami, Florida, The Zulu Warriors. This program focuses on empowering young boys and molding them into leaders who can later serve to improve the community from which they came.
- My vision is to turn traditionally "progressive" values into values held by all of society. Health care should not be a partisan issue, education funding should not require party-line votes, and tolerance should not be espoused only by liberals. I envision an America in which the "American dream" is not only economic success but societal progression.

