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Youth Futures

Young Californians are essential to enacting meaningful change as we envision a more vibrant future for our next century. Join us!

youth futures summit

SUNDAY, MARCH 12 | California State Capitol, West Lawn
RAIN OR SHINE!

Join hundreds of student leaders and activists from across the state for a day of participatory action, celebration and youth-led visioning for the future of California.

In keeping with California’s reputation of being a national leader, this is the first youth futures summit in the entire country.

March 12 youth summit

The Youth Futures Summit is FREE to attend, and invites young Californians (and their allies and champions) to:

  • Travel into the multiverse with AfroRithms from the Future
  • Consider climate action and trade futures currency with larger-than-life Astrobotanical sculptures and Dadara’s Transformoney Tree
  • Explore art installations and a mural inspired by our collective Youth Manifesto for the Future
  • Participate in healing justice and reduce stress with the Blackfullness app
  • Create your own 'zine with comic artist Golnoush Pak
  • Connect with changemakers, dreamers & activists from across the state
  • Plus: a mainstage lineup of musicians and spoken word performers, food trucks and free refreshments, live screen printing, freedom dreaming workshops and more...
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What's New

California 100 is collaborating with creative and community partners throughout the state to dream big about the future. Explore our recent collaborations empowering youth voices.

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Meet the fellows

The California 100 Futures Fellows program brings together 46 passionate student leaders and creative campus activists to rethink existing systems, radically redesign our institutions, and imagine a future that works for the next generation. This fall, Fellows will draft manifestos for the future and participate in interdisciplinary workshops across design thinking, strategic foresight, systems change, AfroFuturism, game design, advocacy, organizing, and other creative fields.

Qingyang Chen

UC Davis

Economic Inequality, Environment, Women’s Rights

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Our Partners

California 100 is pleased to partner with a wide network of campus-based student organizations and inspiring youth-led and youth-centered community organizations — many already deeply engaged in long-term futures planning and intergenerational visioning work.