WHAT IS
Agenda
• What is ACC?
• Governing Board introduction
• Past campaigns
• Current work
• Structure
• Past year event snapshot & pictures
What is ACC?
Who Is In ACC 2026-27?
1. Student Directors: Amina Tongun (12th grade, Oakland Tech) & Andrew Bloch (9th grade, Oakland High)
2. Health & Wellness Director: Tiffany Bouskos ( 11th grade, Fremont)
3. Culture & Climate Director: Senaya Johnson (9th grade, Oakland High)
4. President: Inara Shafiq (12th grade, Skyline)
5. Vice President: Nahla Rasheed Kaplan (12th grade, Skyline)
6. Historian: Qadir Stanford (10th grade, McClymonds)
7. Media Director: Aubrey Saephan (9th grade, Skyline)
8. Secretary: Maria Mondragon Macias ( 12th grade, Fremont)
9. LCAP Directors:
What do we do?
• organize campaigns and activities to serve the assessed needs of our constituents
• collaborate with district leaders and staff to represent student voices and make real impact
What have we done?
OYV! (Oakland Youth Vote)
• Campaign idea came out of an ACC High School retreat
pre -COVID
• Born out of students' frustrations towards the lack of voice they had in things going on in their schools
• Officially Implemented in 2024!
• In collaboration with Oakland Youth Commission,
Oakland Kids First, AYPAL, and Californians for Justice .
What have we done?
Making A-G Real
• In 2009, MSE creates “A -G” resolution based on student action research. Board adopts resolution to make high school graduation requirements meet “A -G” college entrance requirements, to implement with 9th grade class of fall 2011.
• passed by the School Board in June 2009, will make sure that all OUSD
• graduates will be eligible to go to college, whereas only about 1/3 of Oakland’s public
• high school graduates are currently eligible to apply to a University of California and California State Universities.
Restorative Justice Resolution
• In 2010, MSE advocates and creates a resolution
to implement Restorative Justice at all High
Schools, as an alternative to suspensions. Nikkita
Mitchel, ACC Alumni (Castlemont High School
student at the time) spear headed this effort.
Students were trained and then students trained
teachers.
What have we done?
What are our priorities?
Why is our work important?
• Give students a voice in places they are not traditionally in a school district
• Students should know about the inner workings of their district and how they are affected by them
ACC Structure
General High School Meetings
• Dates: 9/25, 10/23, 1/14, 3/18
General Middle School Meeting
• Dates: 9/8, 10/13, 12/8, 2/9
29th Ethnic Studies and Peer Resource
Conference (MS) - March 12, 2027
16th Youth Action Summit (HS) - April 30,
2027
High School
ACC Retreat
(Fall 2025)
*30 Student Participants from 10 high schools
Middle School Ethnic
Studies and Peer
Resource Conference
(Spring 2026)
~250 Student Participants from 10 middle schools
High School Youth
Action Summit
(Spring 2026)
*47 Student Participants from 6 highschools & 2 middle schools Questions?
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