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Aniya Wingate and Walter J. Hull II are not just Mentor and Protege but intergenerational storytellers and collaborators that utilize their art as a vehicle towards justice and healing in the Black community. Together, they created a short film, Shoulders Deep about healing after Hurricane Harvey and a feature documentary, Raising Aniya, about their relationship and exposing environmental justice issues in the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana and Texas. Join us in a conversation about the intersections of mentoring, art, and the importance of youth voice with Walter, Aniya, and her Grandmother

Sharon Cheng has over 19 years of experience as a Therapeutic Consultant/ Behavior Specialist, Positive Behavior Support Professional, Service Coordinator and Special Needs Program coordinator. She is currently the Director of the Special Needs Caring Center for Light and Salt Association in Houston, TX. She brings tremendous experience and skills around educational and adaptive living strategies, program development, client support services, and coalition building. Haitrieu Nguyen is the founder of TÂM: Talk and Mend. TÂM is a grass-roots movement to talk and mend the stigma surrounding

The success of students in the education system is highly influenced by early childhood factors. The most prominent factor that plays a role in the success of students in the first few years of their life is kindergarten readiness. Kindergarten readiness refers to the knowledge that a child obtains both in the home and in early child hood centers that prepares them for success in kindergarten and furthermore in the education system. High levels of success in kindergarten is frequently correlated with parental involvement in the home and attendance at early childhood pre k centers. Historically

Children thrive when their families have the support they need. Nurturing and consistent early interactions with caring and present adults lead to foundational early relationships that support children's long term social, emotional, and physical development. Babies in Baytown brings together community and family leaders to help strengthen local resources and systems of support that promote child well-being and family relationships starting at birth.

"There can be no real change without deep, authentic relationships." How do you tear down oppressive systems, raise communities out of poverty, and solidify real, lifelong change? It starts with relationships. Sounds easy right? The reality is that relationships are complex, heartbreaking, messy, beautiful and most of all key to creating long lasting change. Come and hear from the students and coordinators on The Future Is Us Team on how we use relationships to empower students to build up their community and dismantle the school to prison pipeline. You'll hear real life stories from student