PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
In collaboration with the Brown Boi Project, the GSA Financial Wellness Program, Trans | Trust | Funds (TTF), is an opportunity to empower trans youth to establish a sustainable financial wellness practice. The program offers a financial opportunity for youth to invest in themselves while gathering the tools for financial wellness and personal liberation. Over the course of this 6-month program, we’ll focus on unpacking the messages we received about money from parents, caregivers, the media, etc., and develop strategies for creating our ideal financial lives. This workshop series will cover a variety of topics including: spending plans, getting the most out of your savings, investing in the future, establishing and building credit, and many more! By the end of the program, participants will have the tools they need to overcome financial challenges and adversity as well as the ability to create a pathway for future success.
DETAILS AND SPECIFICS
TTF is a program for transgender and gender expansive youth of color who are high school (junior & senior) and early college age (16 years old – 20 years old) in the South (FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, KY, TN, AL, MS, LA, AR, TX) focused on financial wellness from a trauma informed and anti-Capitalist lens. All transgender and/or gender expansive youth of color can apply regardless of documentation or financial status. If you are interested in learning about how our economic system got this way, hard skills you can apply to reach your financial goals (budgeting, how to choose a high yield savings account, etc.), how trauma and money intersect, and more, then this is the program for you! If you are older than 20 years old and have a strong desire to apply, we will review applications outside of the age range on a case by case situation. We ask that no one older than 24 apply for this program.
TTF FACILITATOR
Logan Meza (they/them) is a Black American, Colombian, trans/non-binary artist and cultural organizer born and raised in Miami, FL. Growing up in a tumultuous and abusive household with parents of marginalized identities is what set the stage for them to find themself in movement and social justice work. They co-founded S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective (SSLC) at 17 which housed the bulk of their organizing work up to age 24. They are now working at The Brown Boi Project (BBP). They are dedicated to movement work as they believe it is their duty to sow the seeds that will turn into fruit bearing trees to nourish future generations to get them closer to liberation in their lifetime while figuring out what joy and freedom looks like in our lifetime.