Fast Company Article on 826 Valencia and the power of Youth Voice

Bob McKinnon of Fast Company wrote this article on how the work that we do in and around San Francisco empowers and educates students, all while encouraging them to use their voice as a force for positive growth.

“When Eggers was a student, he remembers and still has three different writing projects that teachers assigned to him. That same intent carries on with 826 Valencia today with its emphasis on publication of professional-level quality work. “You’re writing a project of getting your story down so that it’s worthy of being put in a library. Worthy, at the very least, of being lugged around for the rest of your life.””