Nearly 500 high school students from the Jefferson Union High School District gathered at San Francisco State University today, for the Ethnic Studies Youth Summit. The event, which ran from the morning to the afternoon, brought together students from the Jefferson Union High School District to engage with workshops, panels and performances celebrating ethnic studies education and connecting them with the history of the 1968-1969 Third World Liberation Front strike at SFSU. That led to the creation of the country's first College of ethnic studies and the start of the ethnic studies movement. Keynote speaker Dregs One connected his personal journey as an SFSU alum who initially struggled academically to how ethnic studies changed his perspective and put him on the path to become a lawyer. "For the first time in my life, education had a real value, a practical application, other than getting a good grade in a class I didn't really care about; I was motivated to succeed as a college st...