$30,000 / 2014
Providence, RI
Sarath Suong, Co-Director
Website: www.prysm.us
This one-year $30,000 renewal grant will support Providence Youth Student Movement’s youth organizing efforts and increase the leadership capacity of Southeast Asian (SEA) youth to mobilize around LGBTQ justice and improved police-community relations through the SOUL and seaQuel organizing programs. During the coming year PrYSM will continue to empower local LGBTQ and straight Southeast Asian allies through the development of leadership skills of youth members, providing a safe space for core members; dismantle the systems and practices of criminalization of Southeast Asian youth through police racial profiling; organize to address LGBTQ Southeast Asian youth issues locally and nationally; and engage the Providence community in addressing homophobia.