Youth Justice Social Change Fellowship funded by Memphis Alternatives to Violence Project (Memphis AVP) aims to strengthen high school–age justice impacted youth organizing and connect young people directly impacted by our justice system to advocacy and community organizing work through their own powerful stories, non-violence principles, and strategic organizing. This partnership between BRIDGES YAC and Memphis AVP is grounded in a shared commitment to equity, nonviolence, intergenerational collaboration, and the development of youth as present-day leaders — not leaders in waiting. The funding is meant to support the development of an ongoing justice-impacted youth leadership group that would be part of the BRIDGES Youth Action Center. The fellowship will culminate in a pitch to funders to support the implementation phase of the youth justice work.