826LA 2022 Annual Report

2,751 students supported

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103 teachers supported

358 volunteers provided one-to-one attention

63 professional grade student publications

total publications including student-written books, newspapers, zines, and digital publications

97% of older students said the 826LA team helped them improve their writing and work

97% felt safe and supported with 826LA

86% felt proud to see their work published

100% of younger students said writing helps them think about new ideas

Across the 826 national network, students on average increased performance on the Analytic Writing Continuum standardized test by 6%, with 826LA students consistently at the top of the curve.

100% of teachers saw improvements in student creativity after working with 826LA

FROM “The Unknown And

AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING STUDENTS

PRESIDENT

When was the last time you were held captive by a story? As a reader, volunteer, and 826LA board member, I believe the common thread in all great stories is compelling characters. At 826LA, students are the main characters, and we are the supporting cast. They are riveting to me because they’re wildly creative, brave, and funny—and they are literally the future of the world we all inhabit.

That’s why I’m excited to share our 20212022 annual report with you, because—in addition to important statistics and heartfelt thank-yous—it is chock-full of student writing and stories about the community of volunteers, educators, and partners who make up 826LA. Perhaps I’m biased, but I think it’s quite a page turner!

Keep reading!

Susan Ko President of the Board

“Have you ever wanted to hear about two mighty souls saving the world (or do they?) by saving poor souls corrupted by an ink demon commanded by Rob, the sinister ink demon? Well then, continue reading.”

Ruffles”

BY GIO S. IN THE GOOD SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE , A PUBLICATION BY 826LA

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

At 826LA, we encourage students in our Storytelling and Bookmaking field trips to fill their stories with conflict and cliffhangers. After the events of the past few years, many of us would like to see a bit less drama in real life. But at the same time, we crave adventure and long for heroes—or in 826LA’s case, to help students become heroes in their own lives.

During an era of seemingly relentless, compounding crises, 826LA staff and volunteers came together to create fun, quirky, safe, and rigorous learning communities for our students. With urgency, we collaborated to be the essential educational resource for the most vulnerable and deserving students of Los Angeles.

The 2021-2022 school year was indeed a pageturner, with a fair share of twists and turns. I joined the organization in October, just three days before we opened our doors to in-person programs after more than a year and a half of virtual programming. I was and am thrilled to work with a resilient, dedicated staff to help 826LA create a new era of supporting more students, more deeply.

But more important than our page-turner of a year are the page turners themselves. When

students enter our centers or Writers’ Rooms, or log on for a virtual workshop, they’re entering a place of imagination. And so they turn the pages: generating writing, improving their skills, doing their homework, and ultimately writing the future we will all inhabit.

In the 2022-2023 school year, we will build on our decades of work to create a stronger circle of support around each student. We could not do any of it without you: the volunteers, donors, educators, partners, families, and staff who believe in our students.

Here’s to the creative power of the page, and beyond.

In gratitude,

Jaime Balboa Executive Director

FROM “Cat” BY OMAR S. IN THE GOOD SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE , A PUBLICATION BY 826LA AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING STUDENTS

Safety and Self-Expression are Top Priorities for In-Person Tutoring

The Los Angeles Times article “Falling grades, stalled learning. L.A. students ‘need help now’” revealed sobering statistics about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures, particularly for Latinx and Black students, and English language learners:

“Across all ethnicities, grades declined as students who had previously earned As, Bs and Cs began getting report cards marked with Ds and Fs…the percentage of As, Bs, and Cs earned by Latino students in the spring of 2021 fell by more than 10 percentage points compared with the prepandemic fall of 2019 — from about 79% to 68%. English learners saw a drop of 12 percentage points, from 70% to 58%… For Black students, the drop was about 6 percentage points. About 76% of grades earned in the fall of 2019 were As, Bs and Cs, compared with 70% in the spring of 2021.”

In the fall of 2021, in order to better address learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, 826LA returned to in-person Tutoring at our writing centers in Mar Vista and Echo Park with new safety protocols in place.

Pedro Estrada and Mike Dunbar, our Programs & Operations Managers, coordinated with staff to implement multi-faceted solutions and ensure Tutoring students and volunteers remained safe. Volunteers and other adult visitors were required to show proof of vaccination, and everyone adhered to COVID safety guidelines. They equipped the centers with space dividers, improved air filters, sanitizing supplies, and masks.

In December, we celebrated our first inperson AST book release party in more than a year.

At a small gathering of committed students and volunteers, students read stories about their favorite memories. Tales of trips to Mexico and Legoland suggested their longing for a time when travel was easier.

One student was too shy to read his essay, but Josie, his tutor, got on stage with him and read it aloud. Working together, it worked.

“Sometimes cats are cute, but sometimes cats can get very angry.”

After more than a year of Zoom tutoring, our After-School Tutoring (AST) program for younger students, and our Tuesday and Thursday Night Tutoring (TNT) program for older students welcomed participants back in person beginning in the fall. It was a joyous reunion, with lots of hand sanitizer—and more writing than in our virtual era, as students resumed the Write On! portion of each session, in which they responded to creative prompts.

AST students celebrated the release of two books this year: Mis Memorias/My Memories—a compilation of recollections about the highs and lows in their lives so far—and The Good Side of the Universe, a collection of stories about mythical creatures.

TNT students published the eclectic A Painting from Dreamland. They wrote essays that accompanied representative photos from their lives: sequoia trees stretching skyward on a family trip; friends standing shoulder-toshoulder in matching masks; smiling teens in graduation robes and leis.

TNT student Marco F. reflected on eighth grade graduation and feelings of uncertainty about the future: “Something I always knew about and that I greatly feared was the future, which is in a way ironic because you are never really ever going to be in the future, but rather you’re always in the present.”

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FROM “Start of a Long Journey”

BY JOSE R. IN PAINTINGS FROM DREAMLAND BY TNT TUTORING STUDENTS

This photo is the start of a long journey and the end of a race….After the first day [with Students Run LA], I left with a different view. The program didn’t care how fast you were, all you had to do was overcome and stay on track. From then on, I wanted to get rid of my mindset that I could never do something out of reach…. I was taking two tutoring programs at the same time, which were 826LA and El Centro Del Pueblo. They helped me prepare to plan ahead…. I realized as long as I write out how much time I plan to do each thing, I can get so much done. It brought a huge confidence boost that got me out of my shell of being quiet, to someone who is probably one of the most sociable in class…. It made me feel like I had a purpose and a goal to achieve.

It’s Not Toga Time Yet: The Return of In-Person Field Trips

On a bright, cold Thursday morning nearly two years after 826LA closed our centers due to COVID-19, fourth graders from Grand View Boulevard Elementary lined up outside the Time Travel Mart in Mar Vista. A local skateboarder performed tricks, delighted by the impromptu audience. Students made their way through the store—past books, time travel sundries, and one rusty robot—to the writing lab.

Field Trips Coordinator Maddie Silva introduced the volunteers who would serve as illustrator and typist for the day’s Storytelling and Bookmaking Field Trip.

But before they could proceed, a voice boomed from “ten floors” above. Just back from

a trip to ancient Rome, Professor Barnacle, the time traveling head of Barnacle and Barnacle Publishers, announced that he would be turning the press into a toga factory.

But neither children nor literary types are easily deterred. Maddie pleaded: Wasn’t there anything they could do?

“We need to make money,” barked Professor Barnacle. “I need a bestseller. If you and these students can put your heads together and write twenty new and original bestsellers by lunchtime, you can stay a publishing house. Otherwise, it’s toga time.”

After discussing the key elements of storytelling, students broke into groups and brainstormed central characters with help from volunteers. The winner was Senek, a superpowered hedgehog clad in a fancy belt, on his way to visit Eggo on Pluto.

And so the story began.

“I understand why we had to be on computers, but the purpose of a field trip is to go somewhere and learn something new. I’m going to spread the word that 826LA’s on-site field trips are back, and I’m sure they’ll fill up fast.”

VIRGINIA TURA

FOURTH-GRADE TEACHER AT GRAND VIEW ELEMENTARY

FIELD TRIPS

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“Mrs. Dude Learns French in Paris”

BY MS. PRUETT’S SECOND-GRADE CLASS FROM WESTMINSTER AVE. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

It was a crowded day in Paris and everyone freaked out when they saw the flying saucer. They all ran away as Mrs. Dude turned into a big, tan German Shepherd and stepped off the saucer.

When Mrs. Dude looked around, the only creature she saw was a half dog, half cat with a mermaid tail named Mr. Fuzzy. “Why are you here and freaking everybody out in such a beautiful place?” he asked.

“Because I want to sing a pretty song and learn French,” she replied.

Virtual field trips were a rare pandemic silver lining, enabling schools that couldn’t arrange transportation to our centers to nevertheless participate in our fun and inspiring Field Trips program. They’ll remain an option for the foreseeable future, but we were happy to see students lining up outside our doors in Mar Vista beginning in February; Echo Park field trips began later in the spring.

Field trip topics ranged from Storytelling & Bookmaking for younger students, to Personal Statements for students preparing for college. A deep respect for student voices and a fresh approach (think collective brainstorming and dance breaks) to the teaching of writing were common threads throughout our field trips.

SUMMER WRITERS WORKSHOP STUDENTS

“The writing assembled here is unflinchingly regional and sentimental, and that gives me hope. It is good to have feelings for and about the place you call home. Those emotions can serve as a call to action. Emotion can also take history and turn it into a poem. LA has, does, and will contain multitudes.”

AUTHOR

MYRIAM GURBA

, FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO THE FUTURE HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES BY

826LA’s Workshops program connects community Teaching Artists to students on a one-time or multisession basis and often combines writing with other disciplines, as in the case of Cole Montgomery’s Pandemic Portraits series. Cole asked students to photograph people, places, and animals in their lives and write about what made them meaningful. Student Yaretzi wrote, “This is my cousin, Damian. For him the biggest thing that has changed in his life during the pandemic has been that he has learned and focused more on his turtles and how interactive they can be.”

In our ongoing Journalism workshop, students produced the first podcast issue ever of our newspaper, VivaTimes. At a release party for the podcast/ publication, Teaching Artist Yásaman Madadi spoke about why journalism was important to them:

“I find a lot of inspiration through communal efforts of storytelling. When I interview someone, it just sparks something that I can’t get just from my own head.” Their enthusiasm was clearly contagious.

For our week-long Summer Writers’ Workshop, 826LA partnered with Picturing Mexican America, a UCLA digital humanities project that illuminates the Mexican history of Los Angeles. Students learned about their city’s Mexican roots and imagined its future, creating a book titled The Future History of Los Angeles

Although most of our Workshops remained virtual, we resumed in-person workshops with our long-time partner, the Hammer Museum, where students explored everything from the varied emotions and writing styles of K-pop artists to intergalactic party planning.

Not Just Academics: Writing Workshops Focus on Mental Health

In December, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a public health advisory regarding a growing mental health crisis among the nation’s youth. In the advisory, he called on educators to “expand social and emotional learning programs and other evidence-based approaches that promote healthy development.”

Since opening its doors in 2005, 826LA has framed writing as more than just an academic pursuit; it’s a path to social and emotional development. But the COVID-19 pandemic added another layer of need for a student population already living with the effects of poverty and systemic racism. Staff asked themselves, How can we best help students?

“I want to be more intentional about where we’re going with our workshops,” says Cecilia Gamino, 826LA’s Workshops Program Coordinator. “I want to change students’ relationship with writing, so it’s not just something they’re forced to do. It can be fun and collaborative and not follow rules. It doesn’t have to be on a piece of paper or in a Google doc.”

Working with local Teaching Artists, Cecilia curated a series of writing workshops focused on mental wellness. The lineup includes: First Generation Students & Mental Health; Personal Growth; Vision Board for the New Year!; Self Exploration: A Mental Health Creative Writing Workshop; Hack Your To-Do

List; and a Mindfulness Workshop. As the titles indicate, the workshops mix practical skills with self-awareness and self-care practices. The series sets the stage for one of 826LA’s key goals for the 2022-2023 school year: to support the whole student.

Daisy Aguirre is a student at California State University, Dominguez Hills, who mentors firstgeneration college students. She is applying her experiences—both as a mentor and as a firstgeneration student herself—to teaching 826LA’s First Generation Students & Mental Health workshop.

In the workshop, Daisy creates a safe space by modeling vulnerability and talking about her own identity.

“I talk about my own parents’ expectations,” Daisy says. “I give students space to talk about their relationships with their parents, society, peers, and themselves. A lot of them say they haven’t even thought about their relationship with themselves. They’re shocked to think about it, and basically say, ‘I do what I need to do to get by everyday.’ I didn’t start that relationship with myself until I was 21, and I’m 22 now.”

Cecilia notes that the pressure on firstgeneration students to excel academically and financially sometimes pushes students’ other needs to the back burner—even though measuring success by career markers in a capitalist economy with large income gaps can be a recipe for unhappiness.

Cecilia observes, “I hope that youth, who are very self-aware and wise, will see the bigger picture, which is that you have to take care of yourself first.”

Paramount Partnership

826LA partnered with mentors from Paramount Pictures to offer a book project for students on the campus of Helen Bernstein High School. Many members of the cohort of students who started with 826LA and Paramount three years ago were now graduating seniors, lending the project extra poignancy. Students explored how the stories told by songs intersected with the stories of their lives. They reflected on connection in a post-pandemic world, straddling multiple cultures, losing loved ones, and falling in love. Their resulting essays comprise the book

Our Greatest Hits: Student Reflections on Music and Memories

Durand Williams, a Paramount volunteer, observed, “A student I worked with told me that, before working together, he didn’t realize he had such an imagination. And he’s just had a different experience of his life since then.”

Students celebrated with a release party in June, where Jennifer Lynch, Paramount’s Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility and Internal Communication, reminded students that they are the creative minds who will create tomorrow’s media. “We don’t need a Mission Impossible 27,” Jennifer joked. “We also need your stories. We need new stories and new perspectives…You and your stories matter.”

BY KATTERIN G. IN OUR GREATEST HITS , A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS OF HELEN BERNSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL & VOLUNTEERS FROM PARAMOUNT PICTURES

I was applying to college, going to school, working, and playing volleyball. I was so overwhelmed, yet unaware. I got to this point where I needed to reflect. I remember seeing something on my phone about the song…“Paradise” by BTS and the lyrics were being displayed on the screen. “You don’t need to run without knowing why, It’s alright to not have any dreams, If you have moments where you can feel happiness, It’s alright to stop.” These lyrics opened my eyes to all the suppressed emotions I had been feeling all this time.

I had been doing my best at school and my friends were telling me I put too much on my own plate. I would always end up really stressed and a lot of the people around me told me to relax. That I needed to take a step back and let things go at their own pace….

I began to work around my own schedule. I finished my college application with no stress or worry. I began to let myself enjoy my life more. I went out with my friends more often, treated myself to certain things, and took all the naps I liked.

Katterin G. was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She enjoys different types of music, food, and playing volleyball. She plans to pursue a major in the STEM field and hopefully make a change with it one day.

FROM “Don’t run without knowing where you’re going”

WRITERS’ ROOMS & IN-SCHOOLS

Our Writers’ Rooms at Manual Arts High School in South LA and Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights foster a culture of writing on campus. In the fall, staff and volunteers worked with college centers to help students draft and edit personal essays for university applications. We also worked with teachers on creative writing and publication projects that integrated their curriculum. English Language Learners collaborated on the anthology Seedfolks, a response to a mentor text.

Students in Roosevelt’s Ethnic Studies program learned about resistance, resilience, and reimagination in relationship to systemic oppression, and wrote poems and essays about their lives through this lens. The result was Behind Our Masks, an anthology that will be published in summer of 2022. In the poem, “Where I Am From,” Valeria V. reflected on how her family must overcome intergenerational trauma: “I am the daughter of parents who grew up with no love / [But this] is what makes my family stronger together / Is what motivates me to love my family more.”

This year, we also deepened our relationship with Venice High School. The long-time partner school officially became the site of the newest Writers’ Room, and will have a dedicated Writers’ Room Coordinator overseeing projects there beginning this school year.

“Every student is different, and it’s really, really wonderful working with them because they’re serious about what they want to do. I give them someone to hear what they’re saying, and help them express how to say what they want to do.”

NED VOLUNTEER

COLLEGE ACCESS

In addition to college access work in our Writers’ Rooms, 826LA held two signature events aimed at making college accessible for students from Title I schools. At the 13th Annual Great Los Angeles Personal Statement Weekend, students worked one-on-one for five hours with volunteers specially trained in the requirements for the University of California and Cal State University systems. According to surveys after the event:

• 71.4% of students received help during Personal Statement Weekend that they otherwise wouldn’t have received

• 85.7% of students felt more confident about their personal statements

• 96.4% of students felt that the adults they worked with cared about their success in school

• 100% of students made significant progress on their personal statements

In the spring, another virtual event helped students pay for college. At our 10th Annual Scholarship Day, students worked with volunteers to shape their personal statements into scholarship application essays.

After the event, student Shanaelle said, “Since I’ve already written all of my college essays, I’ve just been mentally drained in terms of writing and I feel like I kind of just put off scholarship essays. I’m definitely one of those students who needs the money for scholarships…. Today, when I got this opportunity to come in here and write with a mentor, I thought, … ‘this gives me an opportunity to start and submit something.’”

“I felt like I connected with my student in many ways that went beyond the essay writing.”

VOLUNTEERING

Where would 826LA be without our volunteers?

Our mission statement stresses our belief that one-onone support makes a difference in students’ lives, and the data backs it up. But we need a cadre of trained, caring volunteers to deliver on our promise.

826LA has opportunities to fit almost every interest and schedule. There are Tutoring volunteers who work on homework and play games with the same adoring students every week. There are teams of corporate volunteers in college sweatshirts who hunker down with college-bound seniors to work on

their personal statement essays once a year. And there are the illustrators and designers who contribute their talents to Time Travel Mart products, just to name a few. This year, we had a small but mighty Volunteer Team; we welcomed new Senior Volunteer Manager Megan Acosta and In-Schools Program Volunteer Coordinator Erika Hernandez Burke. Resuming in-person programming meant lots of lovely reunions between students and tutors they’d only seen on screen for more than a year. We’re excited to see what the next year brings.

FROM “The World Against Me”

BY MATTHEW G-H IN UNMASKED: DISTANCE WRITING THROUGH A PANDEMIC , A COLLABORATION BETWEEN 826LA AND THE ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP COMMUNITY

Who can I turn to when I am tired? Can I go to my friends?

Can I go to my family? Is there someone I can rely on?

How would I feel?

Would I feel as if I went crazy? Or maybe I would feel depressed?

What if I fell into a deep slumber forever? What would I see?

The darkness?

A new beginning?

Maybe the end?

This is all a misunderstanding…

There are people who are going to support me until the end.

There will be a feeling of happiness. The world isn’t going against me, it’s me and the world going through it together.

MATTHEW GREW UP IN LOS ANGELES. HE IS A KID WITH DREAMS. A KID THAT HAS DREAMS BUT DOES NOT REMEMBER WHAT HE DREAMS OF AT NIGHT. HE IS BORED EVERY SINGLE DAY SO HE DECIDES TO BOTHER HIS FRIENDS AND SPENDS HIS TIME WATCHING ANIME. HIS FAVORITE SHOW IS NARUTO. OVERALL, HE IS A NICE PERSON.

To say that our events this year celebrated literature might seem obvious—after all, we’re a writing organization. But as a writing organization that has also staged fun runs and spelling bees, this felt like a return to our roots.

In February, we hosted an intimate In Conversation event for our supporters, featuring novelist and 826LA volunteer Natashia Deón and Los Angeles Times books editor Boris Kachka.

“I’m always writing. In eyeliner. In the notes section of my phone,” Deón said. “We live in a society that says ‘What do you want to be when you grow up? What are you?’ I’ve never worked like that. I work across disciplines.”

Racism and injustice can feel, she said, “like a boulder that can’t be overcome. We have to keep pushing it. We have to be loud about it.

In the spring, our cornerstone fundraising event, Changing the Story, emphasized the impact that publishing has on students. Titled “Future Bestsellers,” the garden party at Rolling Greens

in Downtown LA honored author Walter Mosely for his commitment to the Los Angeles writing community.

Mosley spoke about his own motivations as a writer. “I wanted to write about the people I loved so much that they would be part of history.”

Guests enjoyed beer from Three Weavers and cocktails from Revel Spirits while perusing books with titles like Mr. Dinosaur, Lisa the Fox, and Junior the Bird: The Good Friends and the Mean Friends. Food stations featured wood-fired pizza from Pace, artful shellfish from Anarchy Seafood, savory tacos from Gogo’s, and vegan ice cream from the Craig’s cart. Cliff Beach set a funk-soul vibe for the evening.

826LA Board President Susan Ko said, “The future is unwritten. For all the challenges of the past and the present, our fates are not sealed. The wildly creative, confident students of 826LA will join other young people in drafting the next chapter for our world.”

A Closer Look at an Installation That Asks Time Travel Mart Visitors to Look Closer

Peek inside the plot points to view the Echo Park Time Travel Mart Timeline

In bold red and black letters, the sign beckons passersby and lightly evokes an era of nickelodeons and cabinets of curiosity. The window is otherwise covered in Time Travel Mart-themed wrapping paper designed by artist Gabriella Sanchez. The unspoken message is: If you want to enter a secret world, you’ll have to look closely.

The latest installation in the westerly window of the Echo Park Time Travel Mart is a collaboration between Time Travel Mart Staff Wilson Swain and 826LA volunteer and illustrator Mary Peterson. Intriguing quotes about spacetime wrap the window on a timeline. For example,

circa 1935: “Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” To see who said it, visitors peer through two round holes (positioned at a height accessible to smaller humans and wheelchair users alike).

Wilson answered a few questions about the installation.

WHAT WAS YOUR INSPIRATION FOR THE TIMELINE?

Years ago Sarah Lancaster, who used to be the Store Coordinator, had discussed wanting to do some form of miniature “peep” opportunity for customers…. There were several objectives for this window—to be bright enough and big enough to have some impact from the road, to reinforce the concept of time travel for the store, and to help showcase a few literary loves.

It’s strange, but some people don’t automatically assume we’re a tutoring center when they come looking for Time Travel products. We wanted to hint at some of that connection here—both through the window quotes and with the customer survey, which is being conducted just inside.

“Everything is a little weird.” SARAH SATISFIED TIME TRAVEL MART CUSTOMER

TIME TRAVEL MART

We did our best to keep the Time Travel Mart weird this year, between new products, interactive window displays, and help from an inflatable time traveling T. Rex correspondent named Tiny, who was known to pop up at 826LA events and chat with students.

With all due respect to Tiny, Time Travel Correspondent Sawyer probably brought more journalistic rigor to the time travel beat. Her series of interviews with artists, volunteers, fellow students, and even herself appeared on our social media under the banner of A Minute of Your Time.

HOW DID YOU DECIDE TO INCLUDE THE PARTICULAR QUOTES/MOMENTS THAT YOU CHOSE?

We were looking for great time-centered quotations made across a relatively recent span of time—but from several different perspectives. Once we found them, I spoke with Mary Peterson about developing illustrations that took the ideas within the quotes and interpreted them to relate to life in Los Angeles, today. There’s something so wonderful about a shadowbox and a peephole—it appeals to the kid in all of us that loves miniature things and hidden worlds. How did you tap into that vibe for this installation?

The window was designed to pull people in—to capture attention quickly from a distance, but to be completely understood only when you get closer. I like the idea that something large can also be intimate. The illustrations must be viewed one person at a time, individually. It’s giving the opportunity for a small quiet moment on a busy, busy street.

The Time Travel Mart celebrated Afrofuturism—a genre that explores the intersection of the African diaspora with science and technology—with the release of two gorgeous prints by artist Valencia Spates.

For “Enlightened Mind,” she said, “For this African illustration, I wanted to show that she is the future that sees other futures, she observes time moving forward and backward. Learning new things, and creating possibilities with an enlightened mind.”

And of course the Time Travel Mart continued to supply diverse travelers from throughout the multiverse with reading materials for their journeys, toupees for their robots, and pint glasses for their parties.

“Monbirds to the Rescue!”

BY ANNALLIA D. IN THE GOOD SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE , A PUBLICATION BY 826LA AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING STUDENTS

Have you ever seen a monkey and a bird combined? It’s called a Monbird. It has a bird’s body and a monkey’s tail. If you haven’t seen one, you need to find an alien named Eight. Eight can change anything into a Monbird with magic. He only has to turn his hand as if turning a doorknob and whoosh!

TREASURER’S REPORT

REVENUE

Government (34%) $913,398

Donations (30%) $812,410

Events & Contracts (16%) $423,000

Grants (15%) $394,833

Store Sales (5%) $123,246

EXPENSES

Programming (77%) $1,932,301

Development (17%) $419,529

Admin (6%) $164,842

—FROM

BY HEIDI Z. IN BEHIND OUR MASKS BY STUDENTS IN ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL’S ETHNIC STUDIES PROGRAM

How You Can Help

INDIVIDUALS

When you donate to 826LA, you are helping students from under-resourced communities write their own futures. We are grateful for the many ways people show their generosity: by donating time, materials, expertise, and, of course, money.

FIVE WAYS TO SUPPORT 826LA

• Volunteer as a tutor, designer, or event helper. If you have a skill, we can put you to work! Visit 826LA.org/volunteer

• Make a tax-deductible donation at 826LA.org/donate

• Join Future Bestsellers Club! Make a recurring donation and receive student writing in your inbox each month.

• Connect 826LA with your network: friends, family, family foundations

• Introduce 826LA to the person in charge of corporate responsibility at your place of employment

COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

Corporate sponsorship is win-win: Students from under-resourced communities get the tools and support they need, and your company makes a positive and visible impact. We thank our highestlevel sponsors with a special spot at Changing the Story, our biggest event of the year. We are excited to talk with you about other forms of recognition, which we can tailor to your company’s goals: blog posts about our partnership, mentions in our newsletter (which reaches more than 6,000 subscribers), social media posts, and more.

CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING

826LA loves corporate volunteer groups! Did you know that 92% of human resource executives agree that contributing to a non-profit organization can build an employee’s leadership skills? Volunteering is also a great team-building activity.

“I am the pride I hold when I communicate with my people.”

“Corners of Boyle Heights”

WHAT’S NEXT

FROM “Open”

BY JSLE IN BEHIND OUR MASKS BY STUDENTS IN ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL’S ETHNIC STUDIES PROGRAM

If I could re-imagine the world, nobody would feel uncomfortable around someone for being in their own skin.

When I first wanted to come out to my abuela, ella me dijo, “Una niña de tu edad no sabe que es su sexualidad hasta los 18 años.” Since that day I never tried again. But I have to remind myself that, in order to enjoy the world and see the brighter side of things, we cannot change everyone…

Taking care of myself… means reminding myself I did the best I could do, and congratulating myself because… I got up and tried.

At our annual planning retreat for the present school year, we asked each staff member to craft their own theory of change— a description of how and why our programs impact students. The varied answers included telling phrases: “meet students where they are at,” “students and teachers that love writing,” “spark curiosity,” “impact society.” These hint at 826LA’s belief that writing is not a standalone skill but an integral part of supporting the whole child on their journey to becoming a whole adult.

In the 2022-2023 school year, we will take our mission to the next level by increasing both the breadth and depth of our programs. We will double the number of students served and embark on Project 553, a dedicated effort to provide writing support for more than 500 Black and African-American students. We will also add creative mindfulness practices to all our programs. From deep breathing to dance breaks, students who are grounded in the present and comfortable in their bodies are free to think and write. If writing—sometimes about intense or even traumatic experiences—is key to processing the world around us, mindfulness offers a gentle ramp in and out of writing.

As always, it will take support from our entire community—students, educators, families, staff, volunteers, our Board and donors—to make next year’s dream a reality. We’re confident in our community and excited to embark on this work with you.

STAFF & BOARD

Jaime Balboa

Executive Director

Diego Quevedo Chief of Staff

Shani Foster Director of Education

Shawn Silver Director of Advancement

IN-CENTER PROGRAMS

Mike Dunbar

Programs and Operations Manager, Mar Vista

Pedro Estrada Programs and Operations Manager, Echo Park

Monica Arellano Program Coordinator, Tutoring, Mar Vista

Maricruz Pool-Chan Program Coordinator, Tutoring, Echo Park

Mari Zerbe Program Coordinator, Field Trips, Echo Park

Maddie Silva Program Coordinator, Field Trips, Mar Vista

Ariana Ponce Olivares Evening Tutoring Programs Associate

IN-SCHOOLS PROGRAMS

LaTesha Knighten

In-Schools Program Manager

Angelica Butiu-Coronado

Program Coordinator, Writers’ Room at Roosevelt High School

William Trlak

Program Coordinator, Writers’ Room at Manual Arts High School

VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

Megan Acosta Senior Manager of the Volunteer Programs

Erika Hernandez Burke In-Schools Program Volunteer Coordinator

ADVANCEMENT

Cheryl Klein

Senior Communications Manager

Christie Thomas Institutional Giving Manager

Puicón-Pérez Design Manager

Alma Carrillo Development Manager

Cole Montgomery Development Coordinator

TIME TRAVEL MART

Carinne Mangold Store Manager

Marco Beltran

Time Travel Mart Staff

Larry Hansen

Time Travel Mart Staff

Wilson Swain

Time Travel Mart Staff

BOARD

Susan Ko President

Sarah Rosenwald Varet Vice President

Nancy Yang Treasurer

Chad DePue Secretary

Andy Alcaraz

Ben Au

Adriana Centeno

Dave Eggers, Emeritus

Jodie Evans, Emeritus

Scott A. Ginsburg

Eileen Shields

Belinda Tan

Holly A. Thomas

David Ullendorff

Karen Van Kirk

DONORS

826 National

Sarah Ableson

Payam Abrishami

Gina Adler

Najwa Al-Qattan

Jessica Alan

Edward Albright

Andy Alcaraz

Jennie Alcaraz

Katie Aldrich

Meron Alefnew

Edgar Alfonseca

All Ways Up Foundation

Alliance Data Systems

Matthew Alsdorf

Eric Anderson

Liz Anderson

Stacey Anderson

Geoffrey Antos

Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann

Allan Appel & Suzanne Boorsch

Apple

Debbie Arn

Ben Au

Ethan August

Tess Ayers, Jane Anderson, & Raphael Anderson-Ayers

Bad Robot Productions

Meredith Bagby & Yvonne Cheng

Kevin Bailey

Robin Bakay

John Baker

Cristina Balboa

Jaime Balboa

Karen Balboa

Erin Ballew

Jill Barker

Baskin Family Foundation

Katherine Bedrosian

Danielle Bekhor

Aimee Bender

Michelle Berenfeld

Stephen Berger

Fred Beshid

Michael Birbiglia

Johnny Bishop

Katherine Biskupic

Lisbeth & Javier Bitar

Adam Black

Michael Blake

Catherine & Cesar Blanco

Maurice Blanco

Allen Blue & Kiaran Snyder

Barbara & Jay Boland

Janet Borrus

Scott Boxenbaum

Eric Boyer

Alaina Boyle

Anne Brashier

Jeff Bratton

Doreen Braverman & Stuart

Braverman-Rudnick

Bright Funds Foundation

Brookfield Properties

Cisca & Chris Brouwer

Ara Brown

Lauren Brown

René Bruckner

Austin Buckley

Brenna Vincent Bunting and Daniel Bunting

Melissa Burghardt

Gwendolyn Burke

Maya Burkenroad

Robert Bursick

Gail Buschman

Sady C

Caldwell Stair

Charitable Fund

Christopher & Melissa Campbell

Lauren Cantor

Mark Cappelletty

Jim Carras

Anne & Alan Carroll

Sherry Carroll

Castruccio Family Foundation

Co-Uyen Catalina

Monique Caulfield

Adriana Centeno

Matthew Cesario

Stephanie Cha & Matthew Barbabella

Emily Chacon

Charities Aid Foundation of America

Vernon Chatman, IV

Jackie Chen

Christy & Matthew Cherniss

Ryan Chesterton

Carly Chevalier

Cameron Chittock

Linda Chun

Christie Ciraulo

City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

Adrienne Cizmadia

Frederick Clark

Robert Clemente

College Track

Comcast Corporation

Matthew Conway

Target Corporation

Alison & Sean Cotter

Karen Bedrosian Coyne & Ted Coyne

Sean Craddock

Noah Craft

Andrew Crawford

Tina Cremer

Critical Role Productions

H Michael Croner

Todd Culver

Monique Curnen

Robert Daeley

Ryan Daly

Rebecca Dameron

Daniel & Mary Reeves Foundation

Cheryl Daniels & James Eskilson

Tyleea Darby

Subir Das

Salomon Davila

Clare De Briere

Aundrea De La Rosa Bathe

Sam de Leve

Micah Dedmon

Maan Dela Cruz

Mary Densmore

Chad DePue

Sharmila & Anand Devarajan

Carly Dierkhising

Disney VoluntEARS Community Fund

Doomsday Entertainment

Eric Drachman

Carmen Dukes

Chelsea Dukes

Patricia Dukes

Taylor Dukes

Robert Dunlap

Durie Tangri

Eastdil Secured

Austin Elliott

Marianne & David Ellis

Allison Erlikhman

ETINA

Jodie Evans

Stacy Evans

Paul Ewing

Amanda & Shepard Fairey

Anne Finestone

Owen Fitzgerald

Jeanne Flaherty

Flanders Cook Charitable Trust

Flanny Productions

Rodney Fontenot

Lisa Foote

Amy Ford

Mike Forster & Susan Cole

Maxina & Million

Franzoni and Zakiyyah Carter

Damian Fraticelli

FrontStream

Susan Froomer

Sarah Gagnon

Colleen Gardiner

David Garza

Carmen Gentry

Peter Georgianni

Wade Geringer

John Giarratana

Charles & Arlene Gibson

Jamie & Scott Ginsburg

Give Lively Foundation

Alexandra Glickman & Gayle Whittemore

Beth Gold

Arielle Goldberg

Evan & Lisa Goldberg

Brett Goldblatt

Joan Goldfeder

Ellen Goldsmith-Vein & Jon Vein

Joshua Gondelman

Sofi Goode

Robert Grant

Carleigh Graves

Green Dot Public Schools

Patricia Greenfield

Richard Greenhill & Laura Hertzfeld

Barry Gribble

Griffin Capital

Lynsey Griswold

Brandon Gross

Chris Grove

Shawn Grover

Nancy & William Gubin

Jan Guenther

Devorah & Itzhak Gurantz

Kristi & Derek Haas

Paul Haddad

Susan Hamilburg

Christine Hammond

Fiona Hansen

Matthew Harrell

Lynn Harris

Davian Hart

Bay Hatton

Jon Healey

Chris Hediger

Timothy Hedrick

Michael Helmick

Gary Helton

Debbie Henderson

Jennifer Hergert

Ellie Herman & David Levinson

Holly Hight

Jonathan Hinton

Sonay Hoffman

Nina Hoffmann

Home Depot Charity Custodial Account

Iris Hommes-Kindt

Winston Howes

Caryn & Matthew Hsu

Kevin Hughes

Lauren Humphrey

IBM Employee Charitable Contribution Campaign

Industry Arts

International Paper

Jaya Iyer

Ashaki Jackson

Jeffrey Jacob

Mike Jacobson

Rosalind Jarrett Sepulveda

Julie Jaskol

Michael Jeter

Adam Jiwan

Joe Edmonds & Linda Smith

Family Fund

David JohnsonMcGoldrick

Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett, & Kole

Andrew Johnston

Marisa & R. Greg

Johnston

Bret Jonas

Sarah Jones

William Jones & Thea Petchler

Mary & John Jurey

Andy Jurgensen

Lirona Kadosh Goldstine & Ethan Goldstine

Grace Kane

Karisma Foundation

Kathleen & Jason Katims

Kaufman Foundation

Jesse Keller

Brigid Kelly

Laura Kessler

Nancy Keystone

Sung, Stacey, & Saeromi Kim

James Kimmel & Molly McNearney

Janna King

Katharine King

Keith Kirk

Birte Klug

Christine Ko

Susan Ko

Erica Koch

Liz Koe

Jenji Kohan

Kathleen Komar

Lianna Kong

Alan Kopitske

KPMG

Ellen Kramer

Jonathan Krauss

Julie Kraut

Ilya Kreymerman

Ranjit Kripalani

Kroger Company

Elizabeth & Brian Kuelbs

Sandra Kulli

LA Arts Recovery Fund

Raymond Lai

Luthor Laine

Aaron Lance

Lark Ellen Lions Charities

Melissa & Brian Latt

Sierra Lauman

Adrienne Lavine

Shannon Lawrence

Scot Lawrie

Leonardo Lawson

Monica Lawson

Matthew LeBlanc

Heather Lee

Kerrie Leinmiller-Renick

Curtis Lelash

John Leslie

Hannah Levien

Marc Levis-Fitzgerald

Ben & Bronwyn Lewis

Eileen Lewis

Ryan Lewis

James Liddell

Aimee Lim

Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Cinthia Lomeli

Robert Loria

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

Los Angeles Unified School District

Nanette Luarca-Shoaf

Joshua Ludmir

John Ly

Mary Jo Madda

Gene Magpayo

Joy Malakoff

Carly Mallenbaum & Daniel Coplon

Mona Mangold

Leonard Marchese

Grace Marcontell

Stella Marks

Beth Marsh

Rachael Martin

Kate & Ko Maruyama

Christine Mason

Maurice Amado Foundation

Lillian McCain

Mary McCarthy

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Leah McGowen-Hare

Anne McNally

Erica McNamara

Rebecca McTavish & Jason Woliner

Robin Meadows

Ankur Mehta

Darren Menaker

Mary Mendelsohn

Rachel Mendelsohn

Monica Menez

Barbara Meyer

Kayla Meyer

Middle Road Foundation

Abby Miller

Amanda Miller

Sally Miller

Michael Mills

Mindel Family Foundation

Nell Minow & David Apatoff

Sam Miron

Charlotte Modly

Paula Mohan

Mohawk Bend

Rachael & Rod Moore

Thomas Moore

Brian Morel

Xavi Moreno

Mike Morgensen

Kristy & Sean Morris

David Morse & Merete Rasmussen

April Morton

Jill & David Muhs

Beth Myers

Michelle Nadel

Nancy E. Barton Foundation

Jacob Nash

Nati Natalie

Gale Naylor

Ty Nelles

Megan Nestor

Rebecca Nevitt

New Argosy Fund

Misty Newland

Nicholle Niblett

O Nichols

Nickelodeon

Howard Nourmand

Michael Nourmand

Graham O’Kelly

Tim O’Neill

Meagan Olsen

Terri Oppelt

Orrick

OtterCares Foundation

Ryan Pahl

Panorama Global Fund

Paramount Pictures

Kevin Parichan

Arjun Patel

Dee Paul

Payoneer Inc.

PayPal Giving Fund

Allen Peele

Marilyn Peralta

John Peterson & Margaret Gordon

Jesse Peyronel

Heather Phillips

John Pilling

Pledgeling Foundation

Kevin Pollak

Chris Pomeroy

Clayton Porter

Susan Presner

Todd Presner

Katelyn Profancik

Kelly Pruner

Public Resources Advisory Group

Karen Quesada

Diego Quevedo

Ajay Rai

Kiesha Ramey-Presner

Paula and Joel Rawlins

Joel Rector

Red Ampersand

Margi Reeve

Carly Renquist

Linda Rice

Richard Dunn Family Foundation

Daniel Ricker

Marissa Ring

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Chris Robinson

Howard Rodman

Kevin Rodriguez

Tre Rogers

Roxane Ronca

Rose & David Dortort Foundation

Ellen & Mike Rosenberg

Jackie Rosenberg

Rosenstein Family Foundation

Sarah Rosenwald Varet and Jesse Coleman

Laura Rosof

Margaux Rousseau

Gary Rowe

Marc Rozman

Paul Rubinfeld

Shannon Rudisill

Georgina & Thomas Russo

Kate Ruzicka

Tiffany Salling

Cassandra Sanders

Santa Monica Press

JoAnne Sapp

Eric Sarb

Mehmet Sarioz

Lois Sarkisian

Wendy and Alan Sartirana

David Sartory

Geoffrey Sass

Sarah Sauers

Elizabeth Sbardellati

Anita Schillhorn

Stacy Scholder

Shelley Schultze

Jeffrey Schwartz & Donna Middlehurst

Ellen Seiden

Zachary Sennett

Mia Serafino

Kieran Shamash

PJ Shapiro

Shapiro/Schwartz Family Fund

Sheila, Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation

Feby Shen

Paula Sherrin

Cindy Shields-Le

Susan Shink

Sue & Stephen Silk

Elena Silva

Shawn Silver

Brad Simpson & Jocelyn

Hayes-Simpson

Max Sloan

Margaret Smith

Shane Sodsaikich

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Patrick & Sarah Spears

Danielle Spratt

Pamela Stacey

State of California

Shalom Staub

Jason Steel

Brian Stern

Lisa Stewart

Thomas Stock-Hendel

Sarah & David Stoker

Nancy Sturm

Laurie & Gregory Sudbury

Pedro Svidler

Amir Talai

Belinda Tan

Candice Tang

Chanoa Tarle

Amy & Angela Taylor

Marjorie Templeton

Kaden Tennyson

The Annenberg Foundation

The Broad Art Foundation

The Carol and James Collins Foundation

The Eisner Foundation

The Hawkins Project

The Joan Leidy Foundation

The Jorgensen Foundation

The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

The Ring Foundation

The Shapiro Family Giving Fund

The Walt Disney Company Foundation

The William C. Bannerman Foundation

The Wylie Agency

Holly Thomas & Dagan Bayliss

Lynne Thompson

Terena Thyne Eisner & Anders Eisner

Corey Tieger

TisBest Philanthropy

Jennifer Tivang

Mark Tobin

Erick Tran

Lili Tran

Julie Treinen

Colin Trevorrow

Steve Tsuchiyama

Patricia Turner

Alison Turner & Lou Mathews

UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art

Alison & David Ullendorff

Jessica Ungerleider

United Way California Capital Region

University of California Los Angeles

Griffith UrangSchuberth & Jennifer Schuberth

USC Good Neighbors Initiative

Joanne Valli-Meredith

Gregory Van Grunsven

Karen Van Kirk & Andrew Anagnos

Mark Van Wye

Christian Vanderhooft

Wendy VanLandingham

Brian Vaughan & Ruth McKee

Mira Velimirovic

Vera R. Campbell Foundation

Susan Villar

Vista Investment Group

Luke von Schreiber

Robert Wachtel

Pronovost

Austin Wade

Christine Walker

Walt Disney Studios

Andrew Walther

Alison Ward

Christine Weir

Shana Weiss & John Silva

Meghan Wellman

Elizabeth Wells

Caleigh Wells & Austin Frank

Nora & Peter Wendel

Mischae Whorley

Inkb0yyy WHY?

Sally Willcox

Anna & Amy Williams

Jake Williams

Kelly Williams

Nancy & Gary Wilson

Katie Wilson

Julie, Jessie & Jenny Wong

Tia Workman

Ryan Worrell

Nancy Yang

Victoria Yarnish

Yen

Jason Yim

Debbie Zarconi

Kenneth Zelaya

Joanna Zimmer

Eric Zuercher

Suzanne Zumbrunnen

Lisa Zwerling

VOLUNTEERS

Tatiana Aarons

Mauricio Abril

Gail Maida Acosta

Maximus Afrasiabi

Andrew Aganos

Nicole Anne Aguilera

Fadi Albanaa

Edward Albright

Daniel Ames

Daniel Anunne

Kelly Aquino Proctor

Stefania Ascoli

Jaime Balboa

Derek Balsamini

Linda Baughn

Elizabeth Baxa

Roxanne Beck

Mary Becker

Rodney Bernardo

Taylor Berwick

Benjamin Billand

Caitlyn Blair

Josephine Bloomfield

Laura Bolt

Jeanna Bonello

Janet Borrus

Addison Bouck

Anna Boudinot

Jessica Brouard

René Bruckner

Arnav Bulani

Nicholas Burt

Gaige Busch-Johnson

Jordan Cabrera

Patty Cachapero

Isabela Camerino

Remaya Campbell

Crystal Campos

Vanessa Cardona

Christi Carras

Benjamin Carrere

Anne Carroll

Riley Carver

Tanya Casillas-Castro

Daniela Castanon

John Cavender

Mary Grace Cerni

Lauren Chan

Caitlin Chappell

Kimaya Chaudhary

Jackie Chen

Rebecca Christman

Karen Chu

Solomiya Chuyko

Kevin Chyung

Katherine Clemons

Jacob Cohen

Stefni Colle

Serena Connel

Rose Connelly

Matthew Conway

Andrea Cornford

Amy Cote

Kristina Cotta

Trevor Crown

Nancy Cruz

Shannon Cynowa

Kathryn Dahlson

Katie Dalebout

Daphne Davies

Carol Davis

Christina de la Cruz

Jonathan Deng

Blake Denham

Laramie Dennis

Rajan Desai

Patrick Diaz

Mark Dibona

Zoë Doll

Loretta Donelan

Caitlin Donovan

Grant Dorsi

Lila Dubois

Amy Duchene

Jared Durbin

Sierra Espinosa

Hanna Farhan

Ashleigh Fata

Sheldon Feinerman

David Ferino

Alessandro Ferreira

Lisa Fisher

Henning Fog

Jasmine Fossett

Jaime Fox

Kyle Frankel

Annie Galang

Josephine Garcia

Janet Geracie

Nima Ghomeshi

John Giarratana

Lily Gibson

Michelle Gibson

Jack Gilbert

Dillon Glass

Blanca Godoy

Meredith Goldberg-Morse

Leslie Gomez

Josh Gordon

Larry Gordon

Mark Gordon

Kristina Gsell

Yezbnesh Gugsa

Cristopher Guia

Susan Hamilburg

Jack Handen

Fiona Hansen

Christian Haro

Abigail Harris

Sara Harris

Katy Haute

Isabel Havens

Melanie Hayashida

Courtney Hazlett

Thalia Henderson

Aaron Henson

Ellie Herman

Cindy Hernandez

Emily Hernandez

Monique Hernandez

Tommy Hernandez

Erika Hernandez Burke

Mark Hess

Danielle Hight

Sophia Hocini

Alice Hom

Jordan Horowitz

Phil Hughes

Christian Hui

Hannah Huie

Siwa Hwang

Andrew Insco

Kirsten Jacobson

Anita Jaskol

Brooke Jenkins

Brian Jennings

Annie Jo

Michael Jorgensen

Jasmin Joseph

Helin Jung

Brad Kaiserman

Nikhil Kanthi

Isabel Kaplan

Juliet Kaufman

Gwyneth Kelly

Julia Kempf

Nancy Keystone

Shing Yin Khor

Ryan Kiernan

Ashley Kim

Sarah Kim

Amara King

Janna King

Cheryl Klein

Thorin Klosowski

Susan Ko

Spencer Kruse

Elizabeth Kuelbs

Jonathan Kuhn

Ani Kyuregyan

Mario Lagos

Gia Lang

Benjamin Larned

Shannon Latimer

Monica Lawson

Daniel Lee

Grant Lee

Heather Lee

Jose Lepe

Kylie Leung

James Liddell

Aimee Lim

Xian Hong Liu

Evan Hsien Rong Loo

Alexis Lopez

Connie Lu

Taylor Lugo

Andrew Luu

Andrea Lynn

Yiran Ma

Oliver Maddahi

Danny Madden

Carly Mallenbaum

Gabrielle Malte

Natalie Marks

Angela Martinez Morales

Kate Maruyama

Amy Matthews

Kendal Mccarthy

Rebecca Mctavish

Camille Medrano

Talia Meisel

Kathryn Mena

Stephanie Mendoza

Jerry Meng

Erica Meyer

Alisanne Meyers

Ribhav Mittal

Julia Monahan

Jordan Monkarsh

Cole Montgomery

Autumn Morgan

Jesus Munoz

Calvin Murray

Matthew Muscarelle

Stephanie Myers

Brooke Nelson

Lanier Nelson

Kristy Ngo

Crystal Nguyen

Kaeli Nguyen

Cristina Nunez

Louise Nutt

Sean O’connor

Patricia Olguin

Ayana Otokiti

Ariana Padilla

Marie Pahos

William Parent

Ashley Paul

Julie Pearson

Jennifer Pellerito

Marina Perez

Fiona Pestana

Ethan Peterson

Susan Petrella

Maya Petrick

Nicole Petrie

Dan Pham

Henry Pham

Artem Pobiyakho

Ariana Polgar

Zoe Poole

Alexander Pusch

India Radfar

Michael Rapkin

Josh Rapp

Jordan Rawlins

Margaret Reeve

Rebecca Rehfeld

Jason Reich

Alexander Reisfield

John Rice

Nicole Robbins

Jacqueline Robles

Kendall Rogers

Ava Romanelli

Anthony Romero Nerio

Sam Rosenberg

Dana Roth

Matthew Rowland

Ryan Rozar

Riley Ruppert

Casey Russell

Isabelle Rust

Tyler Samuelson

Nityashri Sankaran

Ari Saperstein

Anna Schenkel

Amy Schleunes

Eric Schoenbaum

Hannah Schoettmer

Stacy Scholder

Kayela Seegmiller

Brian Semel

Andrew Serbe

Keryn Shames

Hanke Shao

Kayleigh Shaw

Daniel Shinners

Christina Simelaro

Regan Simmons

Jessica Simon

Susan Simon

Indy Singh

Tiff Smith

Julie Stark

Joel Stein

Samuel Stenaka

Megan Stephan

Kyle Stephenson

Alice Stevens

Kimberley Stewart

Ellen Stolar

Jonathan Stuart

Clara Suh

Krisha Suri

D Wilson Swain

Daniel Sweren-Becker

Arya Tandon

Belinda Tang

Evan Tarantino

Marjorie Templeton

Charlie Tercek

Taylor Thewes

Anna Thompson

Malia Thornton

Justin Tian

Jacqueline Toboni

David Ton

Anthony Tovar

Viet Tran

Galen Trine-Mcmahan

Jennifer Tsui

Catherine Tung

Samuel Tung

Jana Turner

David Ullendorff

Karen Van Kirk

Justin Varis

Mira Velimirovic

Abraham Vigdorchik

Debra Vilinsky

Isabella Wachter

Donald Walker

Sissy Wamaitha

A Wang

Ziyu Wang

Caitlin Warchol

Patrick Wei

Isaac Weingart

Arleen Weinstock

Garrett Werner

Jeffrey White

Steff White

Ariel Wilchek

Amanda Wilgus

Marilyn Wilker

Jessica Williams

Eric Windell

Taylor Winnie

Grady Wood

Trevor Worthy

Ran Xiao

William Xu

Yiqin Yang

Orit Yefet

Krystie Yen

Carolyn Yian

Andrew Yu

Deborah Zajdman

Kiyan Zamanian

Isabelle Zamora

Angelica Zhou

Frank Zhou

Xiangyu Zhou

Dara Zukoski

COLOPHON

This annual report was set in Avenir Book and Black, Baskerville, Blockhead, Cubano, and Six Hands Marker and Black.

Design direction & layout by Puicón-Pérez for 826LA.

Illustrations by Sam Gavidia and 826LA students