Dodgers’ Dave Roberts x The ALLIANCE: Los Angeles

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Manager Dave Roberts welcomes students to The ALLIANCE: Los Angeles Student Empowerment Program. The ALLIANCE: Los Angeles program includes student athletes from View Park High School and LA Promise Charter High School.

The Alliance and the Play Equity Fund have facilitated the Student Empowerment Program, which uses sports as an entryway to leadership and advocacy for student athletes. The semester-long program develops changemakers who will build community power and affect systems.

The program’s curriculum was co-created by the Brotherhood Crusade and the Community Coalition. Curriculum objectives include training participants in organizing and identifying social issues to address, facilitating students’ understanding of community conditions and the systems that perpetuate inequality, fostering an advocate mindset and the knowledge and confidence to engage with policymakers, and gaining inspiration from fellow student athletes and professional athletes.