2025 Freedom School Action Camp with VSPN

  • đź“‹ Read the program description for more information: bit.ly/vspn-fsac-about

    Join the Virginia Student Power Network (VSPN) for our 2025 Freedom School Action Camp!

    Virginia Student Power Network invites student organizers in so-called Virginia to join us for the latest iteration of our annual, summer organizing fellowship program: the 2025 Freedom Schools Action Camp (FSAC)!

    Our FSAC is a free, unpaid nine-week long, youth organizing cohort focused on political education, strategic campaign planning, and transformative leadership development. During this training camp, groups of students from across universities + schools in VA will engage alongside VSPN in a mix of virtual camp training sessions, in-person training(s), and skill-building + application spaces.

    This program will be primarily virtual, with some opportunities for in-person engagement.

    Note: We highly encourage former VSPN Freedom School fellows who are currently students to apply to this program as a part of a pod.

    Are you interested in supporting FSAC by taking on facilitation and support roles? Click here for more information to to sign up!

    📌 Application deadline: Sunday June 1st at 11:59pm (EST)
    🟢 Program start: Sunday June 15th (deadline to accept invitation to join cohort)
    🔴 Program end: August 17th (approximately; subject to change) 

    đź“‹ Learn more about the program by checking out the program description: bit.ly/vspn-fsac-about

    Link to Application Questions in PDF form

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    The Virginia Student Power Network is a Black-led, youth-led, queer-led abolitionist organization at the forefront of transformative change. For the past 12 years, our organization has served a crucial role in advancing progressive values, shifting conditions, and generating new opportunities for liberation.


    Our network of young people is committed to ending policing, prisons, surveillance, and militarism. We fight for our future, collective liberation, in which all communities break free from policing and the carceral state and everyone has the skills necessary to make sense of the world – and where young people, students, and workers have decision-making power, self-determination, and autonomy within their lives.

  • Apply for our Freedom School Action Camp now ⬇️

    This information will be used to send you status updates about your application, the Freedom School Action Camp, and other VSPN programming. It won't be shared with anyone outside of our staff team.
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    ⚠️ BEFORE CONTINUING, please read the program description for more information about our Freedom School Action Camp: bit.ly/vspn-fsac-about

  • Have you reviewed the program description?*

  • Part 1: About You

    We want to know more about you. Don't worry; this information will be used to help us make decisions about who is right for our cohort. It won't be shared with anyone outside of our staff team.
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  • About You

    Tell us more about who you are.
  • Gender Identity*
  • Gender Pronouns*
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Heritage (select all that feel most relevant to you)

  • About You

    Tell us more about your education.
  • Are you a first-generation* college student?*

  • *A first-generation college student is a student whose parent(s) or guardian has not received a four-year college degree. See the following link to read more.

     

  • Part 2: About Your Organization

    We want to know more about your organization (or group/collective) and the people you want to organize with for this training camp. This information will be used to help us make decisions about which pods are a good fit for our cohort. It won't be shared with anyone outside of our staff.

  • Applicants are applying as representatives of groups, organizations and coalitions. Please note that by applying on behalf of an organization, group, or coalition, you are affirming the organization’s participation in the program.

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  • About Your Organization

    Tell us more about the organizing you do.
  • Are you a member of a campus-based organization or coalition?*

  • About Your Organization

    Tell us more about the organizing you do.

  • Active: meeting regularly (example: monthly meetings), planning and/or putting on events, planning campaigns,

    Inactive:     have not met regularly in over 6 months, no new members, not actively planning programming or events

  • About Your Pod

    Tell us more about the people from your org/coalition that you'll be organizing with.
  • Are you applying in a pair or trio?**

  • List the names and emails of all other members from your organization who are applying to the Freedom School Action Camp as a pod. (If you are applying alone, please write “N/A”)*

  • Part 3: Camp Commitments

    This information will be used to help us make decisions about who is right for our cohort. It won't be shared with anyone outside of our staff team.
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  • Camp Commitments

  • We plan to host at least 9 remote trainings over the course of the action camp. They will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays between either 2:00pm -5:00pm EST or 3:00pm - 6:00pm EST. Which works best for you*
  • Can you commit to regular attendance?*
  • During this iteration of our annual freedom school program, we want to co-create a strategic, statewide campaign that wins demands waged against specific targets on and beyond our campuses – with you! Are you interested in collaborating with others in the VSPN and the cohort to develop a strategic campaign around divesting from death (policing and militarism) and investing in life (affordable housing) on your campus?*

  • Camp Commitments

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  • We plan to host an in-person training on Saturday, June 28th (This is a tentative date. We are still working on logistics for this, and certain aspects are subject to change). Can you attend an the in-person training?*
  • VSPN remains committed to COVID-informed practices and will require high-quality masking, testing, and contact tracing for any in-person gatherings. Please indicate you've read and will either commit or reject our COVID-informed practices.*

  • Part 4: Q + A

  • The following portion of the application will give us more insight into who you are and what you seek to get out of this camp. Try to explain your answers in 200 words or less when possible.

    Do you need to submit this part of the application in another format?

    ➡️ Use the microphone to record + upload voice messages directly OR

    ➡️ Upload other media directly to the form (such as text documents, print, video, or larger audio files) 

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    If you have problems uploading your files to this form, please send them to us instead at vastudentpower@gmail.com with the subject line: "[Your Name] FSAC APPLICATION MATERIALS"

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    Personal connection to our campaigns
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    Goals
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    Skills
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