San Francisco / Oakland cohort
Meesh (they/them/their) graduated from Cal in 2017 with their Bachelor’s in Ethnic Studies and minor in Global Poverty and Practice with a focus in Education. They currently work as a lead youth organizer for Youth Together, where they work with young folks in Oakland to address educational inequities in their public schools through leadership development and grassroots organzing. Over the past three years, working with young folks for them has been a beautiful learning process of validating joy, healing, and deep relationship as integral ingredients to experiencing wholeness & community change.