T hat’s why I started Building Audacity - to really make space for youth to organize on their own terms for the issues that they felt to be most importan t.”īuilding Audacity is engaged in a wide variety of youth-led projects, ranging from Civically Speaking!, a podcast that holds public officials accountable to COVID-19 response efforts that encompass food distribution, education and rent assistance to the Jean Charles Academy, a dual-language school in Lynn, MA that centers the experiences of Black, Latinx and Asian students, founded by Navarro. Also, they didn’t really make space for the Black and brown youth that they said that they were holding space with and for. “They didn’t really know how to allow youth to lead. “I have been a teacher for a while, I have been executive director for different youth-focused organizations, and I always kept seeing the same things and having the same qualms about the organizations,” Navarro said. Nakia Navarro, founder and ‘lead trouble maker’ at Building Audacity ( AG ‘18, AG ‘20), explained the issues that motivated the organization’s creation, which seeks to empower youth ages 11 to 25, among other programs. This is one part of Building Audacity ’s expansive food justice work, which runs in parallel with the organization’s other programs that address the intersectional needs of the communities it serves.īuilding Audacity is a Black-founded, Black-led nonprofit that supports youth-led changemaking.
Each Saturday at 9 a.m., while their peers on campus largely remain asleep, a group of Tufts students package and distribute food to about 90 to 170 families.
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