BLACK YOUTH N'Action
Payton Silket
Clayton Crowell
Payton is an advocate for social justice, standing strong in his non-violent strggle for racial equality, police accountability, and peace in the streets remains steadfast and in his pursuit for an all inclusive justice. Undertaking many leadership positions ranging from areas of spirituality with Kairos to educational leadership through Sojourn to the Past, he has become a well known face in the Bay Area. He has taken part in peaceful protests for the Mario Woods Coalition, and is always facilitating for more youth to be directly involved in their community.
He patricipates in the Nurses children foundation, which his mother, Leslie Silket, runs.
After maintaing a stellar GPA throughout High School, as well as social awareness and work, Payton has committed to Pepperdine University.
Clayton is an 18 year old living in Oakland, California. His mother works closely with and the care for HIV/AIDS patients, and is director of social services at Allen Temple Baptist Church. while his father is a firefighter. He began doing mission work with the youth ministry very young, and has gone to Los Angeles’s “Midnight Mission” on multiple occasions to volunteer. He has been recognized as an Eagle Scout, one of the highest positions in the Boy Scouts. In the summer of 2014, he went with the East Oakland Youth Development Center on an educational excursion to China. It was through this trip and his mentor, Anthony Green’s, helped him to change his views on life and the way he lived it.
He works with the Rick and Russ radio program, and finds joy bringing music and information to his community. He also plans to intern with KPFA radio station in Berkely.
He finds that serving people is the way he wants to live his life: through education, or by hand. He plans to attend Howard University to study communications and radio broadcasting.
