Seeding Disruption Remix is a DC youth organizing fellowship for racial justice.

SDX fellows are high school students from all over DC who come together over the course of the school year to build the skills, knowledge, relationships, and courage they need to make change in their communities.

Over the course of the SDX experience, students learn how to interrupt injustice in their communities, connect with adult leaders and other students from across DC, and develop important skills and powerful relationships to continue leading for change.

The Program

Like the Seeding Disruption Fellowship, SDX fellows choose one core injustice to spend the year learning about, identifying root causes of, and working to disrupt by advocating for their freedom dreams of a more just world. Students attend monthly sessions, conduct independent work, participate in mentor sessions with SDX alumni, and meet with SDX leaders and adult allies to refine their project ideas. 

Students explore the issues they choose to address and deepen their thinking on project strategy through additional activities like learning trips inside and outside of the DMV, documentary film screenings, guest speakers, interactive activities, group discussions, and political education. They also engage in youth participatory action research that gives them an opportunity to research a problem that affects their community and create solutions to address it. Throughout the program, fellows develop a research question, create a power map, collect data, analyze the themes from the data, and then share their findings through their action project. 

Each student is paired with a mentor who can support their goal-setting, participation in the program, and general success in life beyond the fellowship. Fellows also participate in community-building exercises to develop relationships with other high school students across DC.  

Students receive access to seed money to get their projects off the ground, in addition to receiving a stipend of $1,000 for their participation in the program.

  • The fellowship is open to rising 10th–12th graders in DC who have the passion and interest to make a difference in their communities.

  • SDX will meet one Saturday a month from 10am to 3pm. Students are expected to attend all sessions.

    Sessions for the 2022–23 SDX cohort are scheduled for:
    September 17
    October 15
    November 19
    December 10
    January 21
    February 11
    March 18
    April 8
    May 13
    June 10

  • Meetings will be held in different locations throughout the city. Students will be informed in advance of the session where they’ll be meeting. Most meetings take place at the Martin Luther King Jr. library in Washington, D.C.

Interested in joining the SDX fellowship?

Applications are currently closed. Contact us to stay up to date on future openings!