Virginia Student Power Network (VPSN) is the first-ever statewide student organizing network in Virginia. We were founded in 2013 to build the collective power of young people across the state and to develop their leadership and organizing skills. 

VSPN is a political home for young emerging organizers in Virginia.

Our members currently are concentrated in Richmond and Charlottesville, and we are deepening our base building work in Northern Virginia, Williamsburg, Harrisonburg, and Blacksburg, Fredericksburg, and the Piedmont Valley region.

OUR VISION

VSPN envisions a future of collective liberation, in which all communities break free from policing and the carceral state; in which everyone has the skills necessary to make sense of the world – and where everyone has access to a meaningful education. We strive to bring forward a future in which young people, students, and workers have decision-making power, self-determination and autonomy within their lives– including their educational and governmental institutions.

OUR WORK.

Our base, our member leaders, and our staff are predominantly Queer, Trans, Gender-Expansive, Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color who attend or have attended a public university in the state. The majority of our youth members are actively leading campus or community based youth organizations that focus on one or more of our priority issues.

We center our work on deep relationship building among our members and network organizations, in tandem with state transformative leadership development and state skill building tailored to youths’ needs. 

OUR ISSUE PRIORITIES