Frontline Catalysts
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Mission Statement
According to the United Nations, climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our time” and “threatens the lives and livelihoods of billions of people.” Frontline Catalysts is a community-based, nonprofit organization in Oakland, California with a mission to empower frontline youth to lead the movement for transformative climate justice. It does this through a first-of-its-kind Climate Justice Leadership Development Program for frontline youth ages 11-18. Grounded in ethnic studies, students learn about the origins of environmental pollution, its distinct locations in lower-income neighborhoods, and how to advocate and build for a more equitable tomorrow.
About This Cause
In a time where conservatives are attacking ethnic studies, Frontline Catalysts has collaborated with the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University to develop a climate justice curriculum for middle and high school-aged youth in communities most impacted by climate change. The curriculum is at the core of the first-ever Climate Justice Youth Leadership Development Program, grounded in ethnic studies. Ethnic studies is the only academic field explicitly focused on race relations and ethnic identity in the United States, from a humanistic, social scientific, and social justice point of view. It gives us a tool to teach climate justice through a racial justice lens by teaching students the history of western colonization, land exploitation, resource extraction, and destruction of indigenous communities. It is not only a classroom curriculum; it is putting the theory into practice. Our Climate Justice Leadership Development Program engages youth in a culturally relevant and community-responsive education that meets students where they are while centering their stories to the larger struggle of climate justice in their communities. The program addresses climate change as a crisis and a way to build for a more equitable tomorrow. It provides core 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, technology literacy, leadership, citizenship (local and global), and personal and social responsibility, which the youth will need to navigate their future career pathways. We are committed to offering our Climate Justice Leadership Development Program at no cost to Title 1 schools in under-resourced communities. Three-Year Plan We are on track to meet this year’s goal of reaching 120 students in three under-resourced communities. Next year, we want to reach 240 students in five communities and by year 3, 360 youth in five communities.