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Torie Weiston-Serdan: Empowering Youth to Demand a Seat at the Table While Building Their Own

Torie Weiston-Serdan: Empowering Youth to Demand a Seat at the Table While Building Their Own

Joy Y. Coates
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 6
ISBN13: 9781668424902|ISBN10: 1668424908|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668424940|EISBN13: 9781668424919
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2490-2.ch036
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Coates, Joy Y. "Torie Weiston-Serdan: Empowering Youth to Demand a Seat at the Table While Building Their Own." Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers, edited by Patricia Goodman Hayward, et al., IGI Global, 2022, pp. 212-217. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2490-2.ch036

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Coates, J. Y. (2022). Torie Weiston-Serdan: Empowering Youth to Demand a Seat at the Table While Building Their Own. In P. Goodman Hayward, S. Rehman, & Z. Yan (Eds.), Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers (pp. 212-217). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2490-2.ch036

Chicago

Coates, Joy Y. "Torie Weiston-Serdan: Empowering Youth to Demand a Seat at the Table While Building Their Own." In Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers, edited by Patricia Goodman Hayward, Sahar Rehman, and Zirui Yan, 212-217. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2490-2.ch036

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Abstract

Juggling multiple roles as the executive director of a youth development non-profit, school of education program coordinator, public lecturer, and diversity and inclusion trainer may not have been what Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan envisioned over 10 years ago as a third-year teacher in California's Inland Empire, but the intersection of these roles is representative of the myriad critical needs of the youth in her community and the emotional dexterity it takes to address them all. This chapter provides a glimpse of how a young public school teacher and student advocate refused to accept the blatant lack of services and supports for her students remained committed to educating them while leveraging her role as an educator and scholar practitioner to create an acclaimed non-profit, Youth Mentoring Action Network, that has garnered national and international recognition by putting youth in charge of their own agency, while generating her own funding as a speaker and trainer in the US, the UK, and Ghana. Hers is a story of tenacity and fierce advocacy for young people of color.

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