Individuals reached on social media pages
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Individuals reached on the youth GVA website
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Written and distributed 11+ policy reports to educate youth on local and statewide policies that affect them. |
Cooperation with local and national gun sense groups to promote educational campaigns and advocacy. Groups: TX Gun Sense, GVpedia |
Hosted in person gallery event to advocate for policy change through art featuring a yearlong culmination of 7 advocacy works. |
Generated 9 advocacy artworks, and created multiple posters to aid Texas Gun Sense in statewide advocacy day. |
Created comprehensive letter writing toolkit for youth to access to write letters to their representatives. |
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Represented Youth/ high school voice on official planning committee for TX advocacy day, working to bring youth to the capitol in 2025. |
Featured on KUT Austin news for role in mobilizing youth amidst a rising trend of gun violence threats and in Voyage Austin Magazine |
At Texas Advocacy Day on February 27th, 2025, Youth GVA hosted our very own art instillation activity, known as Mosaic of voices. This project, created out of a simple dream to maximize youth involvement at a political advocacy event, allowed for youth, advocates, legislators and everyone in between to participate in a moment of pause and express themselves regarding the gun violence epidemic in Texas.