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.
Kari Fulton
(kfulton)
Howard University
2007 Fellow
Kari Fulton is the National Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative and was a lead student organizer for Power Shift 2007: The first ever national youth summit on climate change. Fulton works on mobilizing students of color on issues of Environmental and Climate Justice. She is a graduate of the John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University. While attending Howard, Fulton was a board member of Amnesty International Howard Chapter, tutored DC public school students as an AmeriCorp member and co-founded Loving Our City, Loving Ourselves: a DC Based Campus and Community Initiative. She is currently a Senior Fellow of Young People For and a member of the 2008 Leadership Academy. Fulton is a 2008 recipient of the Damu Smith Power of One Award (Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University) and the Brower Youth Award (Earth Island). Fulton continues to advocate and organize for educational and human rights by building awareness of the connection between environmental and social justice amongst diverse audiences and organizations.