Young People’s Race Power and Technology Project

https://tree.northwestern.edu/projects/yprpt

The Young People’s Race Power and Technology project (YPRPT) is an out of school learning initiative designed specifically for middle school and high school students in the Chicago-area. The program offers an innovative research-based curriculum that empowers youth to explore, engage, critique, and reimagine the role of technology in their neighborhoods, schools, and communities. YPRPT is part of an NSF-funded initiative that brings together high school and undergraduate students from Northwestern University, educators, community workers, and university researchers to better understand the impact, limitations, harms, and possibilities that new technologies offer, particularly for historically marginalized communities of color. The program integrates technology “under the hood” investigations with racial and social justice topics, documentary film-making, and a focus on building and sustaining community among all participants.