Since 2017, the Center for Urban Education has been a proud partner in two major student voice and leadership initiatives in Ohio: the First Ring Student Leadership Institute in Northeast Ohio and the Student Leadership Research Collaborative in Center and Southern Ohio. Through these initiatives over one thousand Ohio high school students from over 30 districts around the state have learned leadership, research, and advocacy skills and applied what they have learned to make real change in their schools. Center staff are integrally involved in facilitating regional monthly summits for these programs, guiding participants through cycles of youth participatory action research. The first monthly summits of the 2024-25 programs began in October. Also in October, four high school student members of the 2023-24 programs presented their research findings at the Mid-Western Educational Research Association Conference in Cincinnati. The Center produced the video below as an introduction to the youth participatory action research (YPAR) strategy at the heart of this work.