PROGRAMS
Advancing Michigan Youth Program (AMY)
Rewriting the Story: Youth Teach-In Lab
Overview:
This five-day, in-person intensive is a transformative learning experience where youth ages 18–24 explore systems of power, sharpen their political analysis, and build the skills to tell their truth and back it up. Grounded in cultural knowledge, hip-hop, and radical imagination, participants use the DAOA framework (Desire, Action, Obstacle, Subsequent Action) to unpack real-world issues that matter to them. Together, they co-create and deliver a mini teach-in; a short workshop that shares knowledge and calls others into action.
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Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the program, participants will:
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Analyze how systems shape desires, identities, and barriers
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Apply research tools to verify and challenge dominant narratives
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Build powerful counter-narratives grounded in lived experience, data, and community knowledge
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Design and deliver a public-facing, youth-led workshop that educates and mobilizes
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Program Highlights:
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Daily Opening Prompts using quotes from artists and thinkers to ground discussion in lived experience and radical tradition.
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Identity Mapping & Value Circles to build connection, trust, and shared purpose.
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Elite Capture & Common Ground analysis to deepen participants’ understanding of how even resistance can be shaped by dominant norms.
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DAOA Framework applied to real youth organizers like Mari Copeny and Gitanjali Rao to make theory actionable.
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Stat + Story Skill-Building through hands-on workshops in research, confirmation bias, and source trust.
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Creative Build Time for youth to create posters, slideshows, poems, and video-ready content for their teach-in.
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Teach-In Showcase, filmed and peer-led, where each group shares their topic, truth, and call to action.
Culminating Project:
On Day 5, participants deliver their mini teach-ins to one another, applying what they’ve learned about organizing, storytelling, and evidence. The showcase is filmed as a collective knowledge archive and as a platform for broader dissemination.
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2025 Mamavist Movement Fellowship
Are you a mama or caregiver of color interested in engaging the next generation of grassroots organizers and leaders? Read more about our fellowship below and apply today!
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Spring-Summer 2026 Cohort
​Application is currently closed.
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The Mamavist Movement Fellowship is an entry level leadership development program designed to train a diverse group of women of color to become allies, grassroots organizers, movement and non-profit leaders, and activists.
Upon program completion, our Mamavists are equipped to be leaders whose work aims to demystify government processes and start careers as organizers.
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We are recruiting from the following states:
California, Michigan, Hawai'i, Missouri, New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, Georgia, and Florida.
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Expectations:
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Attend and participate in all scheduled, live virtual training sessions. Up to 2 live session absences are allowed during this program, and are required to be made up before the next week’s meeting.
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Making up sessions can be accomplished through watching the meeting’s recording and completing any applicable assignments.
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Complete 40 hours of practicum that includes:
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Create and deliver a list with a minimum of 75 mothers of color from the fellows personal/professional networks.
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Participate in phone banking for GOTV
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Participate in a text bank for GOTV
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Mail GOTV Postcards to people on the list ​​​​​​​​​
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Stipend:​
The Mamavist Movement Fellowship offers a stipend of $3,000 to each fellow upon successful completion of the leadership development program. This stipend will be split into 4 payments throughout the fellowship. By providing this stipend, we aim to reduce financial barriers and ensure that all fellows can fully engage in the fellowship's virtual training sessions and practicum activities. This stipend underscores our belief in fostering inclusive and transparent pathways for leadership development among women of color, thereby empowering them to effect meaningful change in their communities and beyond.
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