The gentrification of the Mission District brought a "gang list" that affected young people in a 60-block radius, limiting their freedom of movement and association. Vicente Garcia used his 2007 Young People For fellowship to organize the community to stop the gang list.
Alicia Jay
(ajay)
YP4 Staff Member
Alicia graduated from Hampshire College with a focus on reproductive justice and abolition of the prison industrial complex. While at Hampshire, Alicia interned at the Third Wave Foundation, designing a workshop to locate young activists in the current reproductive justice movement and managing the organization’s Abortion Fund. Alicia also served as an adult literacy tutor at the Hampshire County House of Correction in Northampton, Mass., and co-created a student group, Building Awareness Across Bars. Her senior thesis, “Deconstructing the Warehouse State: Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex in the U.S.,” examined the immediate and long-term abolitionist strategies needed to build a world without prisons. While living in Nicaragua, Alicia taught art classes in a prison and assisted in community outreach to youth and teens in surrounding neighborhoods. Alicia joins the YP4 team after working as the alumni fellow at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, a leadership development organization focused on broadening the reproductive health agenda.
As the Leadership Coordinator, Alicia manages YP4's Internship Program and the Sustainability in the Movement programming for Senior Fellows and the Leadership Academy.