People
SYPP is a youth run organization staffed by the following excellent staff members.
Hi, my name is Sunny and I’m 27.
I learn and grow every single day that I spend at SYPP. I grew up in a small Washington town far from Seattle. I wish that SYPP folks had been in my life back then. I still had a fire for justice but it wasn’t really until I came to SYPP that I saw that passion funneled into youth organizing.
In 2006 I had the chance to spend my Americorps year here with the amazing youth organizers who were taking down the WASL. I believe that youth organizing is a central part of the social justice movement. It’s an honor to be able to support youth at SYPP in my new role as co-director.
I also want you to know that I love karaoke, robots, comic books and my dog. I am also left-handed. You can reach me at sunny@sypp.org
Mar is 23 and loves adventure. They grew up playing in the woods of New England and the pesticide green lawns of New York suburbia. A total community nerd, Mar’s artistry flits between dance, writing, cooking, biking, crafts and learning the banjo. Through their involvement with student-labor grassroots activism, Mar approaches their work with youth from a collective liberation framework – for Mar, this means that just as oppression is multifaceted so must community healing and community responses be creative and inclusive of different experiences.
Before SYPP, Mar had a lot of fun working as an AmeriCorps Middle School Instructor with Powerful Voices. Mar learned a lot about vulnerability, emotional capacity and resilience from the youth they worked with at Powerful Voices. Things that Mar values are: consent, silliness, community, healing, relationships, transformative justice and finding new growing edges!
Mo here, is the volunteer coordinator for Seattle Young People’s Project. She has been a volunteer with SYPP for a little over a year now and has been doing the volunteer coordination for about 6 months.
Mo was a youth organizer who started her social justice journey at the age of 12. Volunteering with an advocacy organization that worked on issues of reproductive justice. Now in her late twenties, she says social justice work is something that accents every part of her life.
Although she has had paid organizing experiences she came to the decision to return as a volunteer because of three influences. One, having the privilege to be able to put into practice the ideas in the Incite! book, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. Two, she occasionally would run into retirees who were volunteering at an almost full time capacity and thought, why wait? Lastly, she finds joy and fulfillment by doing social justice work and wanted to beef up the happy in her life.
So if you got some extra hours, don’t have money but have time, or just want to make some space to involve yourself in some joint liberation efforts, then contact Mo at volunteers@sypp.org to talk about next steps.
Community Engagement Coordinator
Ay I’m Anelise Moon.
I started coming to SYPP as a youth organizer when I was 14 and it was one of the few main factors that changed/saved my life. I grew up in the South End (South Seattle) and went to Nova High School. I skipped pretty much every class except poetry and almost didn’t graduate.
Since high school I’ve remained an organizer mainly through Seattle Copwatch and am fully committed to changing the world and society we live in. I am a poet, a community member, and a strong womyn. Through SYPP I was able to learn all that school and family neglected to teach me. So to be able to be a part of this space for new youth is hella bomb. Also I’ve been trying to work for SYPP since I aged-out and I am extremely thankful for the opportunity to get paid to do what I’m passionate about.
