RYSE Youth Center
Seeyade Gizachew serves as the Community Health Coordinator at RYSE Youth Center since March 2022, focusing on organizing events and facilitating workshops for African Black Caribbean diaspora students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where Seeyade has also worked as an Education Opportunities Program Textbook Lending Library Intern since August 2020. Additional experience includes roles as a Counselor's Personal Assistant at Berkeley High School and an intern with Health Career Connection, where Seeyade conducted research on COVID-19 and developed a mental health social media campaign. Seeyade's earlier role as Lead Education Outreach Coordinator in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program involved health education development and team supervision. Seeyade holds a Master of Social Work from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
RYSE Youth Center
RYSE creates safe spaces grounded in social justice that build youth power for young people to love, learn, educate, heal and transform lives and communities. RYSE's Vision We envision Richmond as a strong, safe, healthy, united community where youth have the opportunity to lead, to dream, and to love. We envision a community that inspires youth to live with pride and purpose, where the sounds of gunshots have been replaced by the sounds of organizing, song, collaboration, laughter, and learning. We envision a movement led by young people that ensures dignity for youth, their families, and communities. We envision youth and adults working together in partnership to hold all public systems and the private sector accountable to serving the community and not exploiting its people. We envision communities where equity is the norm and violence is neither desired nor required, creating a strong foundation for future generations to thrive.