Our Folks: Voices of LGBTQ+ Youth of Color

For more than 10 years, URGE has helped build the capacity of young people who want to develop content about reproductive and gender justice, as seen through Our Folks: Voices of LGBTQ+ Youth Of Color fellowship program. After getting training in personal essay writing and digital activism, our spokespeople and storytellers have the opportunity to gain skills in giving media interviews, writing for a variety of blogs and media outlets, and using social media to amplify their work. 

URGE is a domestic policy, culture shift, youth organizing, and civic engagement 501c3 focused on advancing the Young People’s Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda nationally and in our six investment states: Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, and California. We align our time, resources, and focus on fighting for abortion access, trans youth, democracy, and immigrant rights in some of the most hostile places in the country. URGE programs coordinate and align toward our core constituencies, geographies, and domestic policy priorities.

Content from the Our Folks Cohort

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Olivia Clark (she/her)

Sep 18, 2026 / Voter Registration Fest 2026

Voting access is disability justice. Creating for URGE's 2026 Voter Engagement Content Festival, shares why voting access IS disability justice and why every voter deserves a meaningful opportunity to participate.

Natasha Kokkodil (she/her)

Sep 18, 2026 / Voter Registration Fest 2026

Curious about how you can grow civically this upcoming cycle? This installment of the URGE Content Festival "Tending to Our Civic Garden" is all about discovering our civic soil, how we can blossom forward, and plant the seed to create civic gardens of our own."

Emmanuel Modupe (he/they)

Sep 18, 2026 / Voter Registration Fest 2026

I have spent much of my adulthood learning that I am a terrible house cat. People have tried to hand me perfectly respectable lives and I keep finding open windows. Marriage. Monogamy. Gender. Careers. Parenthood. Voting.