Our academy has trained youth of color in our Community Science Organizing Model. Each summer, we invite guest speakers to share their experiences and knowledge on topics such such as Indigenous Sovereignty, Peoples History of OC, Community Organizing, EJ issues in OC and more. Our goal is to equip participants with the resources, skills, and confidence to organize around environmental and social justice issues in their own communities, hold elected officials accountable, and implement Just Transition policy changes. 

Our mission is to expand and engage our youth member base through OCEJ's ongoing campaigns. Through our partnerships with Orange County’s low-income communities of color, academic institutions, and local stakeholders, we will build resident power to influence decisions in a region with low support from public officials on environmental justice issues, and to take on the multiple, decentralized agencies with discrepant degrees of jurisdiction over environmental, climate, and health issues.