Just Transition is woven into all of the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition’s work. KSEC seeks to model the new world with its horizontal leadership structure and bottom up decision-making. KSEC is always learning best practices for this model, by building deep relationships with its members. KSEC will continue to learn how to best meet the needs of its members in a way that is anti-oppressive, intersectional, and moves Eastern Kentucky and Appalachia toward collective liberation.

Over the next few years KSEC will continue to educate young Kentuckians about the issues that are impacting them, empower members with grassroots organizing skills, and show collective power through running campaigns at the campus, local, and state levels.

Travel to the New Economy Coalition's 2018 Annual Member Meeting and CommonBound conference in St. Louis, Missouri.

In the 2017-2018 year, the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition is launching a new two-year strategic objective: “We will resist all new threats to our communities and our environment. We will no longer be ignored.” This work is subdivided into three areas; educate, connect, and show our power.

Travel to participate in the People's Climate March in Washington DC.

The first phase of this project starts by interviewing various environmental and social justice organizations in Appalachia and across the country to determine the "best and brightest" solutions that are being discussed around economic transition. We will then vet those ideas through many young people in the region using a variety of tactics including campus tours, online participation, and a series of Youth Assemblies co-hosted by the STAY Project. The second phase of the project will include presenting our findings to partners and peers.

Increase engagement between the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition and Just Transition leaders in Eastern Kentucky while building a youth presence at the forefront of the movement and space for young environmentalists and proressives to connect and use their collective power to build the future they see for the region

Travel to participate in the GIFT Money for Our Movements social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland

Work of young environmentalists in Kentucky to push for a just transition to renewable energy on their campuses and build political power to elect new leaders, sustain economies, and stand in solidarity with those on the frontlines in the Appalachian Region

Project designed to train and empower 500 Kentucky youth by bringing them Power Shift 2013