Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) is gearing up to host our annual fall Youth Organizer Summit in September, and with applications open for just 2 more days, this Summit is already shaping up to be our biggest and best yet since we resumed in-person gatherings post-pandemic! We already have applications pouring in from across the state! Here at AYEA, …
A New Year In Youth Engagement
Join us this year in making a new resolution: to support Alaska’s youth in becoming our next generation of community leaders and changemakers.
Climate Rights
Voice your solidarity with the young plaintiffs in Sagoonick v. State Alaska, join us March 1st.
A rattled but inspiring 20 year reunion for AYEA
Dear AYEA family, On Friday morning we were on the 4th floor at KNBA’s recording studio, live on the radio sharing our excitement for that evening’s event, our Grassroots Gala: AYEA’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. Lisa, our Dutch Harbor Youth Organizer, and Kengo, a Fairbanks alum, were sharing their excitement for the reunion when the ground beneath us started to buck. We …
AYEA community leaders support HB 199
March 8,2018 – The Cordova Times House Bill 199, a work in progress before the House Special Committee on Fisheries, has won the support of Alaska Youth for Environmental Action, a program of the Alaska Center Education Fund. Twenty-six young community leaders from across the state were to deliver a letter to Juneau on March 9 in support of “The …
Governor recognizes threat of climate change
November 6, 2017 – ADN (AYEA Teen) Growing up in this special place leaves me wondering about the future. Will my children be able to go to the places I have growing up? Will they be able to feel the same joy that I have been so lucky to have in my backyard? Will they be able to cast off …