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OurTown For Teens Class of 2025:

OurTown for High School Students

  • Educates
  • Develops inter-and intra-personal skills
  • Develops self-awareness, understanding, and appreciation for one’s own and others’ racial and cultural identities, heritage, ethnicity, spirituality, and more.
  • Cultivates an expanded awareness of prejudice and its harmful effects on individuals, groups, and communities; and
  • Teaches and develops leadership skills for social change. 

Topics explored at OurTown for Teens include:

  • How various identities and lived experiences shape our worldview.
  • Storytelling to build empathy
  • Building bridges across diverse perspectives
  • Elements of cultivating inclusive communities