Publications
Discover and browse FEEST’s library of publications, from Policy Memos to Community Reports, Survey Results, and Proposals, done in collaboration with our community.
NEW REPORT: Students Shaping Better Schools
During our 2025–2026 School Year, Student Organizers led a Youth-Led Participatory Research Project. Student Organizers developed research questions and gathered student responses. Each school explored questions rooted in its own community, allowing students to identify both shared concerns and priorities unique to their school.
Across all five schools, several themes rose to the surface:
- Schoolwork is a major source of stress.
- Students need places to pause and reset.
- Support starts with trust.
- Life outside of school follows students into the classroom.
- Food Shapes the Day
Learn More and Read the Full Report Here!
Summer Stories 2026 Zine
For one week in July, 25 students gathered at the White Center HUB for Summer Stories, FEEST’s annual youth arts program rooted in creativity, storytelling, and community.
This year’s theme, Ancestors and Descendants, invited students to look backward and forward: exploring the people, cultures, stories, and experiences that shaped them while imagining what they want to carry into the future. We chose this theme because looking back to our past and looking forward to our future is a way to both dream of and organize towards a better world. Our ancestors positioned us to be here in this moment, and we have a duty to think of the future just like they did.
CREATING TOGETHER
Each day, Teaching Artists brought students into a new creative practice:
- Creative writing + Seven Generations with Nurhaliza
- Photography + perspective with Annette
- Pattern making and visual art with Deycha
- Poetry + self-portraits with Reagan
- Zine-making + celebration with Mei’lani
Across these mediums, students experimented with new materials and techniques while creating work rooted in identity, memory, youth power, and visioning. Summer Stories invites participants to imagine and envision a new world in community with each other. When we practice imagination together, we build our collective hope muscles.
We hope you enjoy this year’s zine!
Summer Stories 2025 Zine: Dreaming Out Loud
The Summer Stories 2025 Zine is a bold collection of youth voices, artwork, and visions for liberation. Over the summer, students came together to explore collage, painting, poetry, photography, and more—using art as a way to dream out loud and challenge the systems that shape their lives.
This zine is more than a project; it’s a declaration of creativity as resistance and storytelling as power. Each page carries the colors, textures, and truths of young people imagining freer futures and inviting us to imagine with them.
What Student’s Need on Campus:
In the fall of 2023, FEEST Students Organizers surveyed over 300 students across 5 schools on what they need on campus to support their mental health. We learned the top issues causing stress, what is getting in the way of their education, and most importantly, what youth need to thrive in the classroom.
In the winter students analyzed and then created an accessible way for their peers and decision makers to understand their learnings. We are proud to share their analysis with our wider community with the hopes that this resource can be used as a tool for securing more solutions to the things students need at school!
Summer Stories 2024 Zine: Creative Liberation Through Storytelling
Join us on a journey through the Summer Stories 2024 Zine, where art, storytelling, and social justice collide! Over four exciting weeks, we dived into zine-making, comics, creative writing, and more, sparking youth to express themselves and challenge the status quo.
This zine is a celebration of our voices, our experiences, and our dreams for a brighter future. Flip through the pages to explore a world of creativity and inspiration!
Healthy Food Round Table Policy Memo 2:
Rooted in the feedback our committee received from students and teachers at Evergreen, we found that providing students with fresh, free, and delicious food is a key ingredient for student success. When school meals and snacks provided to students are free and fresh, students feel a sense of security, increasing their likelihood to participate, collaborate and be present in the classroom.
Healthy Food Round Table Survey Summary 12/17/2019:
The HFRT committee envisioned a free snack program in local schools that would break down some of the barriers we identified in our 2018 Survey. In the fall of 2019, the vision of the Healthy Food Round Table became a reality at Evergreen High School. Read our summary on the second part of the survey we hosted!
FEEST x OSE: SPS Snack Pilot Qualitative Data:
In December 2019, FEEST staff interviewed students about their experience with the snack box pilot program. Interviews explored the freshness, cultural relevance, and accessibility of the snack boxes, as well as whether or not the snack boxes influenced students’ ability to learn and the overall culture of the school. Read more about the Qualitative Data we collected!
Healthy Food Round Table Policy Memo 1:
The HFRT Committee gathered feedback from over 320 community members and found that young people are not eating school lunch. Read more on FEESTs Recommendations to change this in our 2019 Policy Memo.
Healthy Food Round Table Survey Summary 01/18/2019:
The Healthy Food Round Table survey was created by our committee to gather community feedback on how young people access healthy food options in White Center. Read our summary of the survey we hosted!
FEEST x OSE: SPS Snack Pilot Project Proposal:
Read our original proposal for our Healthy Snack Project, which was in collaboration with The OSE’s (Office of Sustainability and Environment) Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP).
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