Andrea Juarez Mendoza

Y.E.S. Project Director

Andrea Juarez Mendoza is a scholar/activist, artist, and community organizer of twenty years from San Francisco, California, currently living in New York City while completing a Ph.D. in Urban Education. Her work and research center on de/colonizing education, youth activism, community organizing, and Participatory Action Research at the intersections of healing, resistance, and art. She is working with the Center for Humanities as the Y.E.S. Project Director alongside seven youth organizers to produce a youth-led summit on educational justice for youth in New York City.