SHADE | Notion

Members of Teen Team ✊🏽 Left to Right: back - Gigi, Nico, Matt, Jeff, Amon | front - Samadhi, Amara, Eli, Jen, not pictured: Cheryl.

Members of Teen Team ✊🏽 Left to Right: back - Gigi, Nico, Matt, Jeff, Amon | front - Samadhi, Amara, Eli, Jen, not pictured: Cheryl.

<aside> 💬 Matt CRLS ‘25, Samadhi CRLS ‘24, & Team

We are SHADE

We are an organization of youth creating a community for teens by teens. Our community is built around a temporary summer place we are creating at Donnelly Field. SHADE is a safe hangout spot for teens to come by, find friends, make new ones, and have a good time. SHADE is made possible through Cambridge’s Shade is Social Justice public art competition.

Why Shade

We are trying to address the decline in teens’ mental health, and overall get teenagers outside in a cool 🧊 place, doing things together. Teens nowadays are faced with either feeling unwanted, unwelcomed, and/or excluded. We can change that by solving our problems for ourselves.

Adults are always the ones controlling the money, where it goes, and how it’s used to solve our problems. We want to use funding and help our peers through using our own knowledge and insight about our age group that adults can not provide. At the end of the day, nobody knows teens better than teens.

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Who’s helping

Left to Right: Jeff Goldenson, Levi Bedall, Amon Millner, Debbie Bonilla, Will Adams, Kyrk Morris, Kini Udovicki. Not pictured: August Lehrecke, Matt Muller (Photography: Matteo Millner)

Left to Right: Jeff Goldenson, Levi Bedall, Amon Millner, Debbie Bonilla, Will Adams, Kyrk Morris, Kini Udovicki. Not pictured: August Lehrecke, Matt Muller (Photography: Matteo Millner)