Find your place within a community of influential visionaries.
Gain a Support System
Attend exclusive educational and community events where you meet collaborators, learn from award-winning experts, and speak in front of professors and business executives. Connect, team up, and co-create with other young thinkers who get noticed for their ideas. Get in front of decision-makers who take your ideas seriously.
Break Barriers with Black and Belonging
Hone your research skills and communication skills to turn passions into meaningful initiatives, careers, or entrepreneurial endeavors. We support you with advice and encouragement so that you and those around you can reap the benefits of your personal growth and unique strengths.
Take Your Impact to the Next Level
Get the resources you need to leave a positive impact on your community. We partner with companies and professional organizations who provide access to media equipment, statistics software, books, and more. Use these tools to organize events and workshops, create content, or refine artwork that inspires others and sparks positive change.
Our Welcome Message
Black and Belonging is a platform for young thinkers and influencers who are passionate about making their schools and communities better places. We are proud to help them express how schools and organizations can address the most complex societal problems facing young people today. We keep a finger on the pulse of emerging trends and developments in education and training so that we can integrate these into our work with young people. At its heart, Black and Belonging is about collaborating with communally-oriented people who are ready to ‘unschool’ school and create spaces where young people want to be and want to learn.
DeLeon Gray, PhD | LinkedIn