WA-BLOC

We are WA-BLOC, a community-based organization rooted in south Seattle with a mission to build and nurture intergenerational leaders through transformative education and revolutionary social action. We envision South Seattle as an epicenter where Black and brown youth and families thrive and our school communities are joyful, restorative spaces of high quality learning. Our programming is designed to build strong, literate, and empowered scholars prepared to make a difference in themselves, their families, communities, nation and world. WA-BLOC partners with southeast Seattle Public Schools, community partners, and most importantly, our students and families, to create a collective vision for equitable education that is culturally responsive, trauma-informed and restorative. Since launching our organization in the summer of 2016, we have served thousands of BIPOC K-12 scholars, employed 90+ Black and brown college-aged leaders from our south Seattle neighborhood, trained hundreds of educators and administrators in Restorative Justice practices, cultivated the foundation for school-wide Restorative Practices in multiple schools, supported student-led direct action leading to significant policy change, and provided transformative summer programming for hundreds of Black and brown scholars and families.