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Get Involved

Join us at XyayX’s Environmental Science & Justice Program, where your time, expertise, and passion can help reshape our communities for the better. We invite volunteers, researchers, educators, tech facilitators, and sponsors to partner with us in meaningful, action-driven work. Together, we build and deploy IoT sensor kits, support data collection, design engaging environmental workshops, and visualize real-time insights through smart dashboards. Whether you're guiding youth in sensor setup, crafting community mapping modules, or co-hosting public forums—your contribution directly fuels environmental equity and justice.

Ways to get involved

We offer multiple ways to get involved:

Volunteer to assemble sensor kits, support deployments, or assist with urban garden installations.
Step into a research or facilitation role, mentoring cohorts through data validation, analysis, and season-long environmental inquiry.
Lead a research project, working alongside schools and community organizations to investigate air, water, soil, or urban heat metrics.
Become a Sponsor, funding critical resources like sensor kits, youth fellowships, training workshops, and data platforms.

We Need Leaders

Our program thrives when community leaders step forward—people who are ready to guide research teams, host events, shape advocacy efforts, and amplify collective impact. We’re looking for leaders from all walks of life—educators, organizers, tech experts, storytellers, and residents—who are passionate about environmental justice and ready to make change.

Lead with Us By:

Coordinating Research Initiatives
Guiding community-based monitoring projects—air, water, soil, or heat—through all phases of data collection and reporting.
Facilitating Workshops & Trainings
Leading sessions on IoT, sensors, dashboard use, data storytelling, or cultural geofencing.
Organizing Community Events
Planning and moderating forums, conferences, youth showcases, and policy briefings that center Black and Brown voices.
Advancing Advocacy Campaigns
Using data and storytelling to influence school, transit, or municipal policy—amplifying the priorities of affected communities.
Mentorship & Capacity Building
Coaching youth weatherproofing, research methods, civic engagement, technical skills, and more.
Why Your Leadership Matters
Leaders connect people, data, and solutions. By stepping into a leadership role, you help shape programming, train emerging community scientists, and drive long-lasting policy change. Your vision becomes our blueprint—and together we transform environmental justice from grassroots to lasting action.

Why It Matters

Black and Brown communities in urban areas bear the brunt of environmental hazards—air pollution, toxic soils, heat stress, and water contamination. These inequities aren’t by accident; they are the result of systemic disinvestment, zoning injustice, and exclusion from decision-making processes. By taking action—through data collection, storytelling, community organizing, and policy engagement—we begin to reverse this harm, not just treat its symptoms.

To truly shift the balance, affected communities must lead. When residents design and conduct research, run tech-driven workshops, host public forums, or present data to city officials, they reclaim authority over their own narrative. That voice turns data into advocacy, advocacy into policy, and policy into meaningful change—healthier neighborhoods, stronger communities, and a future where environmental justice is not an ideal, but a lived reality.