ABOUT us

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our mission

SEAT is a movement of young people developing transferable skills and demonstrating youth visibility in policymaking.

By engaging in constructive action with active engagement in hands-on opportunities of advocacy and education, we're creating a vehicle for driving civic transformation as we build a social movement for bettering our communities and dismantling oppressive power structures.

Through storytelling and intergenerational partnerships, we're cultivating cultural shifts to center student narratives, promote student rights, and shape a future where students hold agency in education. Check out our work!

directors

Executive Director

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Christianna Thomas

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Program Director

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Partnerships Director

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Hayden cohen

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State Policy Director

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Federal Policy Director

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Grace Ding

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Research Director

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coordinators

Emeriek Moreno

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Engagement Coordinator

Oyindamola Akintola

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"Save The Books" Leader

organizers

Emma-Eliz Barberena

Zahra Bakrin

Jarred Burton

Kadence Carter

Angel Huang

Soha Jashwant

Hudson Locke

Edward Lopez

Ayat Nori

Arshia Papari

Sumya Paruchuri

Azeemah Sadiq

Leslie Vazquez

Kush Vijapure

Tommy Wan

J'Vonnie Williamson

Coalitions

SEAT is a member of the following:

Student Action Network for Equity, Seek Common Ground

Teach The Truth Coalition, Texas Freedom Network

Right to Read Network, National Coalition Against Censorship

Texas Legislative Education Equity Coalition, IDRA

Ethnic Studies for Texas Coalition, Ethnic Studies Network of Texas

Texas Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, Texas Gun Sense

Urban Libraries Council Coalition

Defense of Democracy Coalition

Unite Against Book Bans, American Library Association

#YouthInGov Coalition

sponsors

Seek Common Ground
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
Future Coalition
Campaign for Our Shared Future