our mission
SEAT is a movement of young people developing transferable skills and demonstrating youth visibility in policymaking. By engaging in constructive action with active engagement in hands-on opportunities of advocacy and education, we're creating a vehicle for driving civic transformation as we build a social movement for bettering our communities and dismantling oppressive power structures. Check out our work!
directors
Angel huang
she/her
Program Director
Grace Ding
she/her
Research Director
Hayden cohen
they/them
State Policy Director
coordinators
Christianna Thomas
she/her
Program Coordinator
Emeriek Moreno
he/him
Regional Coordinator (SA)
Oyindamola Akintola
she/her
"Save The Books" Leader
organizers
Emma-Eliz Barberena
Zahra Bakrin
Jarred Burton
Iris Cheng
Pooja Kalwani
Edward Lopez
Soha Jashwant
Alexavier Mendoza
Ayat Nori
Sumya Paruchuri
Leslie Vazquez
Kush Vijapure
Coalitions
SEAT is a member of the following:
Student Action Network for Equity, Seek Common Ground
Teach The Truth Coalition, Texas Freedom Network
Right to Read Network, National Coalition Against Censorship
Texas Legislative Education Equity Coalition, IDRA
Ethnic Studies for Texas Coalition, Ethnic Studies Network of Texas
Texas Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, Texas Gun Sense
Urban Libraries Council Coalition
Defense of Democracy Coalition
Unite Against Book Bans, American Library Association
sponsors
