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Juntos is dedicated to empowering the youth through leadership and community service in order to bring about transformational change and bridge inequity gaps. Juntos is recruiting youth to service their own community by providing after school workshops and community projects in order to develop student leadership and organizing skills. The skills gathered through this process will be demonstrated at the end of the year through the students creating a way to service their communities.
To be a Juntos Youth Lead Fellow...                                              Key Roles for a Juntos Youth Lead Fellow
You must be a teacher or community member* in Southern Colorado.
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​Fill out an Application Here
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Goal for Juntos Youth Lead Fellows:
Organize their student leaders and classrooms to truly transformative and enduring outcomes, explore their personal leadership through their own identities and histories, and develop core skills in the implementation of transformational pedagogy. 
  • Recruit 2-4 students
  • Facilitating students twice a month in discussion or activities regarding education inequity and racial/social justice issues
  • Participate in 5-6 retreats with Juntos including end of year summit
  • Transport students to retreat site (will be reimbursed for gas)
  • Assist students in their community projects (included in the bi-monthly meetings with students)
  • ​Update Juntos with where the students are once a month (via text, call, email, or meeting) *Exception is December*​
​To be a Juntos Youth Lead Student...                                             Key Roles for Students in Youth Lead
You need to be at one of the participating schools or talk to a teacher about joining
In Southern Colorado 
​Grades 7th-12th 
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Goal for Students in Youth Lead:
Lead their peers and/ or community toward action for social justice specifically related to educational equity, explore leadership through their own identities and histories and the core values, and develop core skills to take action for social justice
  • Learn more about educational inequity
  • Learn how to organize​
  • Learn about how other groups have addressed issues of inequity 
  • Learn how to create positive social change in own community
  • Participate in 5-6 retreats with Juntos
  • Improve leadership skills ​​