25th Anniversary Celebration
Highlights
Urban Alliance reflects on the past 25 years of achievements, milestones, hundreds of stories, and extraordinary moments from the more than 6,000 students connected to paid high school internships across the Greater Washington, DC area, Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit regions.
Program Spotlights
Denardo Worthy, DC 2019
“Urban Alliance meant another family for me,” said Denardo. “There’s a lot of people out there that don’t have [any]one to look up to,” Denardo said, but Urban Alliance “gives you a paid internship, it gives you a mentor, someone to look up to, talk to, or just someone there to be there for you … It helps me feel not alone. It helps me feel that that no matter what somebody is always watching me, rooting for me, shouting for me.”
A Life-changing Opportunity
Obama Youth Jobs Corps
“Part of the goal of this program is to expose you to what’s possible…Everybody here has already shown extraordinary talent and initiative. All of you all are focused in a way that I can’t say I necessarily was when I was your age. So you guys are already ahead of the game…Part of what we want you guys to all feel is the confidence to know that none of this stuff is beyond your capacities. We want you to feel that in your gut, that there is nothing you can’t figure out. And so if this program helped anything, it is for you guys to figure out that.” – President Barack Obama