Storytelling is a recipe for empowerment and action.

The Kitchen is SPARK's storytelling lab. It gives students and youth leaders the information, facilitation, and tools to do four things: understand the data that shapes their lives, tell their stories, connect those stories to the evidence, and turn all of it into action.

Data literacy : reading and insights

Young people will engage with skills to read, work with, analyze, and argue with data as a critical practice. They will tackle questions about sources, identify patterns, and seek insights that connect to (or event miss) their lived experience.

Storytelling :lived experience and impact

We believe that storytelling is meaningful on its own. Intentionally including and centering young peoples’ stories, connected to the data that drive community decision making and policy development is a meaningful way to support them in the co-creation of tomorrow.