While many White Evanston residents attended protests and events immediately following Floyd’s death, Parisien said she has since noticed attendance shrinking. “Looking back at everything I’ve been able to do, it shows young people have a lot of power to make the change they want to see in their communities.” Members of Evanston Fight for Black Lives at a September fundraiser event following the shooting of Jacob Blake. “In Evanston, the people who are organizing and carrying this movement are young people, and I want to make that super clear,” Parisien said. EFBL has also met with City Council, organized protests and redistributed donations through a mutual aid fund. Through these organizations, Parisien is leading equity workshops to discuss antiracism, at her school and at other Evanston schools. Since the police killing of George Floyd last spring, ETHS senior Mika Parisien has been working as a board member of both Students Organized Against Racism and Evanston Fight for Black Lives. Evanston Township High School students are continuing to educate the Evanston community and press on racial equity in the city, even as they say the momentum behind last summer’s wave of antiracism action has fizzled.
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