Early Stages: Power Writing Program

Grants: $60,000 over three years (2007/09)

About the Project

This grant supports Early Stages’ Power Writing Program which seeks to “foster literate, ethical and critically conscious young men and women who will be fully prepared to participate in our society. “If you do not learn how to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you.” This is the motto that Power Writing brings to each class presenting a curriculum of empowerment to New York City high school students, so many of whom suffer from the profound disempowering effects of internalized racial oppression. The program creates a safe space, a creative community for students to express, test and refine their worldviews and to integrate their creativity, passion and ethical strength in the personal process of life building.