BYA has partnered up with orginizations and many local black businesses and euntrepenuers. BYA supports local artists, activists, education advocacy and positive legistation that promotes the best for the people of the bay area. 

Affiliations: 

• Qilumbo 

• Berkely BSU

• Bishop O'Dowd BSU

• Cal BSU 

• Stanford BSU

• Lyric

• Destiny Arts Center 

• Sojourn to the Past

• Yerba Buena Arts Center

• Boy Scouts

• Nurse's Children Foundation

If you would like to contribute to BYA or become affiliated, email: blackyouthnaction@gmail.com 

Visitors: 

• CEO of "I love being Black" 

• Pendarvis Harshaw-Oaklandish, Freelance photogrpagher, New American Media Fusion, an ABC - Univision Joint-Venture, Researcher for Anna Deavere Smith, Oakland Kids First, University of California, Berkeley

Visited: 

Bobby Seale- Former Black Panther 

Elaine Brown- Former Black Panther

Alicia Garza- Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter 

Minnie Jean Brown- Little Rock Nine

Elizabeth Eckford- Little Rock Nine

Jimmy Webb- SNCC / Civil Rights Activist

Jerry Mitchel-Investigative Reporter

Simeon Wright- Emmet Till's cousin

Angela Lewis-James Chaney's daughter

Reverend Clark Olsen

Joanne Bland- director of Journeys for the Soul Museum in Selma, Alabama, where she works to promote civil and human rights, and in particular seeks to increase voter awareness.

More To Come: 

• Sevgi Fernandez- CEO and Founder of Together We Stand 

• Adorie Howard- Stanford Student