Social Practice

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In Texas county jails, thousands of people await trial in dangerous and inhumane conditions. They suffer human rights abuses that can lead to disability and death. These thirty urgent voices of incarcerated people and their loved ones tell their own stories—a poignant appeal for changes to the criminal justice system gives that an inside look. 

I was honored to work with the Texas Jail Project to help curate this collection of brave voices.

"An admirable, all-volunteer effort to document the lives and experiences of New Orleans evacuees. Alive in Truth is a thorough, big-picture exploration of the toll of one of America's worst natural disasters through the eyes of its victims - an invaluable historical tool."

— Austin Chronicle

Creative Action
for Equality:
A Toolkit for Change

This toolkit for facilitators offers 12 media arts lesson plans for resisting social oppressions such as sexism, racism and homophobia, with teen learners. It offers an intersectional approach to transforming culture and uses student art to foster dialogue on crucial issues.

by Abe Louise Young with the Prevention Team at Texas Council on Family Violence

A collection of feature articles, interviews and youth work that explores the vital powers of the writing process, and how to teach it. Includes the collection, Half My Heart Is In Iraq: Students with Deployed Parents Speak Out.

An anthology of writing on race and identity by a diverse group of teenagers in metropolitan Detroit. The anthology emerged from an intensive writing workshop for students of Hmong, Arab and African-American descent. Facilitated and edited by Abe Louise Young with What Kids Can Do, Inc and the University of Michigan Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity.