This past summer, I was honored to assume roles in protest organizing, youth education and empowerment, and business leadership. As the mentor in the founding of a local high school activist group, Fridays4Freedom, I worked in collaboration with local high school activists in Portland to organize marches, vigils, and art workshops. Our events were city-wide and sometimes included up to 500+ participants. With the help of Don't Shoot Portland, I was able to financially support the group in materials through purchases and in-kind donations. During a global pandemic, I worked to secure partnerships with local nonprofits and health workers to make sure that all of our events were COVID-friendly and always had adult security and volunteer EMTs available. As a mentor, I led planning meetings and organized workshops and a speaker series for high school activists. In late August 2020, I left Fridays4Freedom, to focus on my secondary project, the founding of my arts collective and social change organization, IRRESISTIBLE, which was founded in response to increased community demand for digital creative support in social justice movements. Inspired by American author, Toni Cade Bambara’s quote: “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible”, IRRESISTIBLE (www.irresistibleart.org) and @artistirresistible was created with a commitment to accessibility at its heart. Our purpose is to not only make the revolution IRRESISTIBLE, but also accessible. Our commitment to accessibility is what cements our role as a bridge to connect grassroots social justice organizations and artists. Founding and leading a company as a visual artist and academic was extremely challenging. In the process of navigating how to start an LLC, write-up contracts for team members, and secure funding, I learned valuable skills around leadership, business, and resilience. We secured nearly 300+ applications internationally from artists who wanted to be a part of IRRESISTIBLE’s artist network and secured over 5k in startup funding through donations and personal investment. We collaborated with grassroots organizations across the country and paid BIPOC designers for their work. We launched mid-summer with founding partnerships with Black Lives Matter Greater New York, GOOD Projects DC and Don’t Shoot Portland. By the end of the summer, IRRESISITBLE’s network and mission was expanding rapidly - but I paused its development because the core team consisted of all college-aged students who didn’t have the capacity to run the project alongside school. Although protests largely quieted across the nation, the need for organizing and social justice artwork is never-ending and persists. The necessity for change is felt. In the future, I hope to shift IRRESISTIBLE towards an artist collective model, expand our team and streamline our funding process by partnering with investors or a fiscal partner.