The gentrification of the Mission District brought a "gang list" that affected young people in a 60-block radius, limiting their freedom of movement and association. Vicente Garcia used his 2007 Young People For fellowship to organize the community to stop the gang list.
Laura Hadden
(alauraborealis)
Evergreen State College
2007 Fellow
Laura Hadden is a recent graduate of The Evergreen State College where she studied documentary media and gender studies, culminating in the creation of A Problem Like Maria, a documentary film featuring the stories of religious sisters (nuns) and their struggles for gender equality within the Catholic Church. As a 2007 YP4 Fellow, she coordinated a documentary photography and audio exhibit on the lives of families facing welfare cuts in Washington state. She also spent a summer doing human rights documentation work in Guatemala and currently serves on Amnesty International's Women's Human Rights Steering Committee. After spending the last year in Seattle working on community outreach for the documentary film Inlaws & Outlaws, Laura is thrilled to continue combining her passions for media and social change through her work as a community organizer at The Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, CA. In her spare time, Laura can be found freelance writing for various publications, taking photographs of gentrifying neighborhoods, and/or making mix CDs for every imaginable situation.