The murder of George Floyd, following the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the many other Black people going back generations, has sparked protest around the globe and in our home cities. We at PSP share your struggle with the intense feelings that these killings bring up – heartbreak, anger, fear, helplessness. My hope for our world is that this moment will be one step a path that ends in true and swift reform of our culture and institutions so that not one more life will be taken.

Partnership Scholars Program was founded in the belief that every child has a right to an education and that no child should be limited by their environment. We believe that everyone must have the opportunity to achieve their goals and create the life they want to live. Without equity and true justice that goal can never be achieved.

At our core PSP wants our community of students, volunteers and alumni to feel safe; to have hope for the future; to live in a world that is just. We believe that Black lives matter and that the arbitrary killing of Black and Brown people is the true injustice in our world. We’ll continue to seek equity by lifting up PSP students and mentors as they contribute to creating a better world. 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

                        – Martin Luther King, Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

All of us at PSP are committed to fighting injustice and oppression, and creating equal opportunity for all. In our staff and board meetings, we’ll be asking ourselves how we can embody an anti-racist and anti-discriminatory philosophy in all our work.