Rise East 40x40 Youth Advisory Council
Your voice can shape what happens next in East Oakland, and you can get paid for your time. Join the Rise East 40x40 Youth Advisory Council to gain real work experience, build your resume, make valuable connections, meet new friends, and turn your ideas into action. Choose the initiative that fits you, explore opportunities across the community, improve how youth find resources, or create media that reaches and inspires your peers. This part-time job works around school. You must live in the 40x40 and commit through September 2027. Ready to make your mark? Apply Now!
Upcoming Events
Rise East 40x40 Youth Advisory Council implementation Partner Announcement and Kickoff Party.
9/25 6;00-8:00PM
Join us on Friday, September 25, as the Rise East 40x40 Youth Advisory Council hosts its Implementation Partner Announcement and Kickoff Party.
This event marks an important step in the Youth Navigation and Exposure Tours initiative. Our young people helped review proposals, hear presentations, ask critical questions, and select the organizations they believe can move this work forward. During the evening, they will share what has been achieved so far and introduce the implementation partners who will lead this work over the next year.
We hope you will come out to celebrate and support these young leaders as they help turn their ideas and decisions into action across East Oakland.
Oakland Tech Week Is Coming to East Oakland!
Sunday, September 27, 2026.
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
East Oakland Boxing Association.
816, 98th Avenue, Oakland
Free parking, brunch, and refreshments included
AI as a Human Multiplier, Building the Rise East Youth Navigation App, With Youth in the Lead.
Join EOBA and CARLI for a Brunch and Learn about what changes when the people who will use a technology help lead its development from the beginning.
Members of the Rise East 40x40 Youth Advisory Council are helping guide the development of the Youth Navigation and Exposure App. During this panel discussion, youth leaders and the app developers will share how they are working together to turn lived experience into product requirements, features, trust standards, data decisions, and testing priorities
Attendees will hear how East Oakland youth are identifying access barriers, setting priorities, and deciding what will make the app useful, safe, relevant, and trustworthy. The conversation will examine how transportation challenges and fragmented information affect the user journey, how peer trust influences adoption, and how youth decision-making changes the development process.
Bringing Oakland Tech Week to East Oakland recognizes the talent, creativity, knowledge, and leadership that already exist here. East Oakland deserves access to technology investment, career pathways, partnerships, and a meaningful role in determining what gets built. Our young people bring valuable knowledge to product development because they understand their community and the barriers families face.
The user has changed the game. We can no longer build for young people and ask for their opinions after the major decisions have been made. We have to build with them and give them real authority throughout the process.