We’d like to share that after the most recent health order lifting restrictions on construction, and after implementing new CDC and OSHA regulations and recommendations for worker wellness, the RYSE Commons crew has safely resumed work on site. Read our full update on RYSE Commons and our other work this past month!

“May Day is about resistance, about struggle, about power. Arundhati Roy tells us that “the pandemic is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next”—an opportunity to realize another world, other ways of being together.” Read the full letter by youth intern Dulce Garcia and staff member Andrew Yeung.

Help RYSE provide direct financial disbursements to support families and youth during the pandemic.

In this month’s blog, we wanted share the experiences of our youth members during the pandemic. Read their interviews below as they identified some of the needs they are witnessing in their homes, and as they share a few of their own wellness practices. Plus, learn more about RYSE’s daily virtual programs during this time of physical distancing.

We checked in with Marlen, one of our youth organizing interns, to share about her experiences so far during physical distancing, and to identify the needs she is witnessing in her communities.

We checked in with Emani, one of our youth organizing interns, to share about her experiences so far during physical distancing, and to identify the needs she is witnessing in her communities.

We checked in with Camila, one of our youth organizing interns, to share about her experiences so far during physical distancing, and to identify the needs she is witnessing in her communities.

We checked in with Ann, one of our youth organizing interns, to share about her experiences so far during physical distancing, and to identify the needs she is witnessing in her communities.

We checked in with Marques, former RYSE member and current RYSE staff, to share about his experiences so far during physical distancing, and to identify the needs he is witnessing in his communities.

RYSE’s COVID-19 safety plan and updated list of community resources.