The gentrification of the Mission District brought a "gang list" that affected young people in a 60-block radius, limiting their freedom of movement and association. Vicente Garcia used his 2007 Young People For fellowship to organize the community to stop the gang list.
Rebecca Fureigh
(rfureigh)
YP4 Staff Member
Hello, hello. I'm YP4's communications manager; everyone calls me Fureigh. I joined Young People For after an extended Messenger-Anderson Communications Fellowship at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, where I launched a podcast series about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender elders and experts.
I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College with a degree in sociology. While at Reed, I served on the Honor Council and as co-leader of the Queer Alliance, hosted a weekly radio show on campus, produced the evening news at KBOO Community Radio, interned at KQED public radio and engaged in anti-oppression work. In 2004, I co-created ResourcesPDX.org, a health resource guide for transgender people in the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area.
I serve on the board of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, have served on the advisory board of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls and am a founding member of the Girls Rock Camps Alliance. I'm also the guitarist for the Shondes.