OUR MISSION

RE·Center activates youth and adults to drive transformative change towards racially just schools and communities.

OUR VISION

We envision an equitable and just world where all youth have what they need to grow and thrive. We envision empowered students supported by conscious, critically-thinking adults and supportive and safe schools and communities. We work towards a world in which equity is institutionalized in all school systems.

OUR VALUES

  • We believe all youth, specifically Indigenous, Black, and other youth of color, should have what they need to grow and thrive.
  • We believe in centering the voices and narratives of people with marginalized identities, and we recognize multiple approaches to creating a more equitable and just world.

  • We believe that individuals and organizations can change their underlying beliefs, practices, policies, and procedures to create environments that unlock the potential and skills of all people.
  • We believe that meaningful change happens when individual and institutionally-supported commitments to increased social and racial awareness are paired with processes that focus on deep racial and social identity development, knowledge of systemic oppression, and transformational community-building practices.

  • We believe that co-creating and maintaining an environment that invites courageous and honest conversations about everyday manifestations of oppression is essential to an equitable and just world.
  • We believe that speaking truth to power is key to our collective liberation.

  • We believe that recognizing and valuing people’s humanity is essential to creating the type of community needed to challenge systemic oppression.
  • We believe in working with people- not for people. We believe in building power with people not power over people.

  • We believe that we cannot ask others to do work we are not willing to engage in ourselves.
  • We lead by example and experience, not just theory.

  • We believe that human-centered anti-racism and anti-oppression is possible.

  • We believe in collective liberation, inside and outside of the work space.
  • We believe that effective change must be multi-leveled and systemic. It is necessary to challenge systemic racism in institutional practices, policies and procedures as well as in interpersonal relationships.