Jelani Brown brings several talents to his role as our Youth Organizer. He is a screenprinter, graphic designer, illustrator and community organizer who believes that the path to racial equity is one that relies heavily on community self-reliance and self-sustainability. Jelani’s organizing experiences include the Youth Council for Positive Development’s Ma’at Youth Program and Youth Undoing Institutional Racism. Jelani has been involved with many community projects in the St. Louis area including the Healing Walls Mural Project, the Freedom Garden Initiative, and YUIR’s Undoing Institutional Racism’s “Pipe Dreams,” a mini documentary on St. Louis Public School’s prison to pipeline.