“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
– Aboriginal activist group, Queensland, 1970s
Our Work
Projects
Our projects are developed in collaboration with community partners, and involve helping to analyze and solve key information and communication challenges around issues of social justice and environmental sustainability.
Partners
Our partners are non-profits and civil society groups rooted in communities experiencing inequality and injustice, who work with us to increase their technological capacities.
Curriculum
Our core year-long applied project development classes helps prepare and support students in implementing technology-linked projects with community partners.
We envision a world in which the power of technology is effectively harnessed by marginalized communities to promote social justice and environmental sustainability.
We work towards:
young leaders connected to empowered communities skillfully using tech and communication tools to help build a socially, economically, sustainably just world
Projects Implemented
People Impacted
Students Joined
Common Goal
Jacob Martinez
Founder of DigitalNest
“The Digital NEST is growing at a rate often not seen in non-profit organizations. That growth has been made possible by the talent we have been able to recruit from the Everett program. We have successfully recruited 6 Everett alumni to the staff of the Digital NEST and one of them has risen to the Director level. They are a source of talent because of their technical and professional skills and for their knowledge and commitment to social justice.”
Tyler Spencer
Class of 2017, Everett Alumni Foundation Board Member
“The Everett Program was a life-changing experience that, as a history major, enabled me to work on the historical social injustices that I had learned about. It empowered students to tackle technology and created a space that fosters leadership, which have remained invaluable lessons!”
Mai Sutton
Board President Everett Alumni Foundation
“I am in awe of the Everett Program and what it has achieved over the years, and I’ve come to appreciate how truly rare it is ever since graduating from the program near a decade ago. How many universities can say that they have a hands-on social justice training program that empowers students to be so resourceful and entrepreneurial–not for some profit objective o to tangibly and positively improve communities using technology. This program changes the world.”
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Our Amazing 2021 Partners
