Indigenous Youth Power

At The Liber Institute, young people from Indigenous communities across the country use design to hone insights and advocate for change

During Summer 2020, The Liber Institute partnered with Cambiar Education to launch The Liber Institute and Cambiar Wayútȟokeča: Change Agents program, a 2-week intensive experience for 20 Indigenous young people from North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Washington state. Wayútȟokeča is a Lakota word meaning “to change, modify, or transform,” and the participants are referred to in the program as change agents. Krystal, one of the young people who participated in this summer’s programming, says the adults were very adaptive to change agents. “They didn’t call us students,” Krystal says. “We’re not learning from teachers; we’re learning and collaborating alongside elders and each other.”

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