WA-BLOC’s mission is to empower academic, creative, community-connected lifelong leaders through high-impact academic and “place-based” social justice leadership development.

Our vision is for South Seattle to be a thriving nucleus of Black and Brown excellence where community-based, intergenerational leaders Harambee [come together] for equitable transformative education and liberation.

WA-BLOC achieves this vision through year-round educational programming that re-engages students in school, dismantles systemic racism, and disrupts the school to prison pipeline for black and brown youth in South Seattle.