Working with NAACP Connect.

Also at my internship, I worked with the NAACP Connect, The Youth & College Divison. The Youth & College Division serves as the premier institution for young people to develop the skills they need to meet various challenges that face African Americans and other youth of color. NAACP youth units across the country engage in social justice activism, addressing issues at the local, state and national level, with a primary focus on education, economic development, health, juvenile justice and voter empowerment.

According to its mission statement, the division aims to inform youth of the problems affecting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities, to advance the status of the African American community, to stimulate appreciation of the African Diaspora and other people of color’s contribution to society, and to develop intelligent and militant youth leadership. Recently, the Youth and College Division started the NAACP Connect. NAACPConnect is the social networking hub bringing together the NAACP Act-So and Youth & College Communities.  The NAACP Connect uses Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube to connect with college students and get them engaged in the many fights for social change.

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Meet the two heading NAACP Connect and letting me share office space with them.

Name: Courtney Rose Harris

Where are you from? Colorado Springs, Colorado

Educational Background: Colorado College with the B.A in History and Political Science (Double Major) and a  minor in African Cultural Studies. Master's from University of Alabama in Education

Reason for working at NAACP:  Was in local chapter of NAACP, great connection to youth and was a former youth leader in state

Title and duties: NAACP Connect Project Specialist

Greatest accomplishment in life:Writing Senior Thesis and spending 4 months in Chinatown discussing housing disparities.
Greatest accomplishment at work: The launch of the NAACP Connect site
Words of wisdom: "Stay hopeful and never limit one's self, ever."

Name: Larry Brown Jr. 

Where are you from? Detroit, Michigan

Educational Background: Howard University B.A in Broadcast Journalism

Reason for working at NAACP: Active in NAACP chapter as youth, the responsibility and reward. 

Title and duties: NAACP Connect Specialist

Greatest accomplishment in life: Being engaged, getting married in November
Greatest accomplishment at work: Too Much Doubt Campaign
Words of wisdom: "Be courageous, bold and always yourself."

Follow the NAACP Connect:

Twitter;  @NAACPConnect 

Facebook: NAACP Connect