We are excited to announce our positions on local and state ballot measures for the November 8th, 2022 election! Download them in English, Tagalog, Spanish, and Chinese: Download our English voter guide Download our Tagalog voter guide Download our Spanish voter guide...
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Our Student Liberation Manifesto and other highlights from the 2022 Summer Rising Fellowship
by Ashwin Prabu This summer, I joined ten other student organizers representing four Bay Area schools — SF State, USF, Stanford, and UC Berkeley — in San Francisco Rising’s Summer Fellowship program. Together, we built up our organizing skills, learned about the issue...
Student Debt Crisis: Where is the Relief?
Written by Diamund We are quickly approaching the 6th student debt moratorium deadline. A deadline that will lead to many students, grads, and other loan holders scrambling for lifelines they simply do not have. While some people have been able to get their student...
SF Rising’s own Celi Tamayo-Lee will now become a permanent Co-director!
SF Rising is proud to welcome Celi Tamayo-Lee, our former Interim Co-director, as one of the new permanent Co-directors of the organization! We sat down with Celi and asked them some questions about their experience, background, and what they’re excited to bring to SF...
Bay Rising: Integrated Voter Engagement in the Bay Area
By Bay Rising WHAT IS INTEGRATED VOTER ENGAGEMENT? Bay Rising and our member organizations all use a strategy called integrated voter engagement (IVE) – an approach that research, as well as our own experience, has shown is among the most effective ways to increase...
Call to art: Student debt reimagination
For the month of July, San Francisco Rising is hosting a Call to Art to reimagine what our lives would look like without student debt. Respond with any art medium or form to reimagine what life would look like without student debt. Post your art...
SF Rising is teaming up with the ACLU of Northern California to co-convene the SF District Attorney Accountability Alliance
As you may have heard, District Attorney Chesa Boudin was recalled in the June 7th primary election. The mayor will have 10 days after the Department of Elections certifies the results to appoint his successor. That means Mayor Breed is making her decision about who...
Apply to be a Summer Rising Fellow!
Join San Francisco Rising for "Summer Rising" - an Organizing Fellowship for 10-12 college students attending school in San Francisco (CCSF, USF, SFSU) or born/raised in the Bay. This is a 6-week long fellowship at 16-20 hours a week. During this fellowship,...
Envisioning and Actualizing a Debt-Free Future: Reflections From a 2020 Graduate
by Stella Ramos I sat at a dimly lit restaurant table across from my mom in New York City. It was only my second time visiting the East Coast, prompted by college visits to schools I hadn’t even finished applications for. We were sitting at the table awaiting our...
Build Racial Equity Through Student Debt Cancellation
By Diamund We’ve never been in this sort of crisis before. The world is experiencing an ongoing pandemic, people are dying by the thousands, and our economy is seemingly on the verge of a collapse. This is a moment in history that could set a precedent for future...
