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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.
Through storytelling and intergenerational partnerships, we're cultivating cultural shifts to center student narratives, promote student rights, and shape a future where students hold agency in education. Check out our work!
Our Vision
Advocating for a seat at the table, SEAT is normalizing the presence of students in educational policymaking – nothing about us, without us. We strive for a day where students speaking at school board meetings is a norm, not an anomaly. Every news article about education or school policies should include students. Education-related legislation should involve students in the policymaking process. Grantmaking should include more student-led initiatives. These are the cultural shifts we are driving so every student can hold agency in our education.
LEadership
Hayden cohen
they/them
State Policy Director
Sumya Paruchuri
they/them
Program Associate
Tommy Wan
he/him
Federal Policy Associate
Azeemah Sadiq
she/her
State Policy Associate
Marley Brailey
she/her
State Policy Associate
Ngoc Ho
she/her
State Policy Associate
organizers
Oyindamola Akintola
Jasmine Arias
Emma-Eliz Barberena
Zahra Bakrin
Jarred Burton
Kadence Carter
Aubrianna Del Bosque
Aliyah Ewell
Alex Hant
Eliza Hebert
Clara Hurter
Soha Jashwant
Eliot Lam
Hudson Locke
Kayla Madrid
Krish Nath
Lana Nguyen
Ayat Nori
Arshia Papari
Isadora Paul
Hailey Sommerfeldt
Alondra Valerio
Kush Vijapure
J'Vonnie Williamson
Carla Wu
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
#YouthInGov Coalition
Democracy 2025, Democracy Forward
Right to Read Alliance, Authors Against Book Bans
Anti-Lege Lege Club, MOVE Texas
SEAT leadership is represented in the following:
Advisory Council, National Coalition Against Censorship
Executive Council, Team ENOUGH
Youth Advisory Board, IDRA
National Student Council, GLSEN
National Teen Board, Beyond Differences
20 Under 20 Changemakers, GLAAD
Youth Assessment and Accountability Committee, National Urban League
alumni
Angel Huang
she/her
Former Program Director
da'taeveyon daniels
he/him
Former Dep. Exec. Director
Emeriek Moreno
he/him
Former Engagement Director
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