Bridging Tempe Youth and City Staff Through Youth-Led Action Projects: Strategies in Support of the Neighborhood Justice Project Brief

This document was compiled as part of the culminating experience for the Master of

Sustainability Solutions (MSUS) program at Arizona State University in 2022. The MSUS

students involved worked on this project for approximately nine months, and therefore, relied on

the relationship-building capacity of the City’s Youth Council Coordinator to connect with the

McClintock students. All of the students who comprised the MSUS team have not and do not

reside in the Escalante and Victory Acres neighborhoods. Nor have any of the MSUS students

had prior contact or relationships with the Escalante and Victory Acres neighborhoods. The

MSUS team was limited in the amount of time in which they were approved to physically be

present on the McClintock High School campus. Similarly, due to the academic constraints

presented by ASU, the MSUS team faced a time constraint when it came to follow-up activities.