SEAT at the Table

Summer’s hottest new thrill is SEAT’s Hot Policy Summer 🫣☀️🔥 Join us for a series of actions, workshops, and keynotes, starting with Rep. on July 20 🪑🗓️

Participants will learn about Texas higher education policy and strategies for campus organizing. Reflecting on the past year, we will elevate our impact in the year ahead. Students will lead the way!

RSVP at seatx.org/hotpolicy 🔗

Dear Censor Creighton, we’ll see you in court 😤

Two months ago, we mourned the death of Texas Tech University with a funeral for academic freedom by and .

Today, we applaud our faculty partners for suing Censor Creighton’s egregiously restrictive university policies.

Read more in the Texas Tribune 🗞️

This America 250th, tell lawmakers that students deserve a seat at the table 🪑🗣️💜 SEAT delivered a Student Bill of Rights to 1,200+ policymakers in Texas, and we are now asking you to amplify our message.

Take a moment today to send our landmark document to your member of Congress at LINK IN BIO 🔗 https://studentsengaged.org/bill-of-rights

In one night at SEAT Between the Pages, we raised over $10,000 to help scale and sustain our mission to center and elevate youth visibility in policymaking 🪑🤩

We are grateful to have hosted community members and trailblazers in Austin to learn more about how the students of SEAT are engaging on the frontlines of Texas education policy issues.

Alongside sponsorships from Texas AFT and the Texas Youth Power Alliance, the success of our evening was made possible by your generosity—thank you!

As the next school year and Texas legislative session approach, we invite you to become a sustaining SEAT champion. Make a monthly donation at LINK IN BIO 🔗


📸 CCR Studios and Adam Mastoon

Stakes have been raised: We’re on the Supreme Court’s SHADOW DOCKET 👻 We’re suing Texas to protect the First Amendment rights of youth and all Texans.

When Texans want to download apps, we are now subject to intrusive age-verification that not only present barriers but rather preclude our very right to access everyday content online.

The First Amendment doesn’t have an age threshold. We’re telling the U.S. Supreme Court: youth have free speech rights! 🗣️🪑

💰 Use our new calculator by Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools at: https://studentsengaged.org/action/billionaires

TOMORROW!! Between the pages, you’ll discover students advocating for public education, civil rights, and multicultural democracy. As a student-led movement elevating youth voices in policymaking, SEAT is authoring history and changing the world.

We invite you to take a “SEAT” Between the Pages for an evening centering the youngest generation of civic leaders. With the support from leaders like you, we are Texas’ student movement for a seat at the table.

Our banquet will take place on Saturday, June 20 at the Austin Central Library from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm CT.

During the evening, you’ll enjoy a buffet-style dinner while hearing from notable community leaders like president Shawntal Brown, president Felicia Martin, and past-president Becky Calzada.

As we gear up for the next Texas legislative session, we need your support in fueling SEAT’s statewide leadership programs and robust organizing networks that will help young Texans shape the future we wish to live in.

Can you join us and/or make a contribution? You can find more details at studentsengaged.org/betweenpages and LINK IN BIO 🔗

Best of Austin 🕊️💔