195 Copyright © 2015, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 12 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch012 Students on the Rise: Learning with Immigrant Youth in Out- of-School Spaces of Community Activism ABSTRACT This chapter discusses the recent fndings of the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City (DKPNYC). The DKPNYC is a cultural studies research project designed to excavate the discourses of urban youth activism and organizing in relation to critical literacy learning. In this chapter, the authors look at the work of the DKPNYC youth activists around issues related to immigrant rights and educational justice in out-of-school spaces. Amongst the interconnected issues surrounding this work, the youth participants in the DKPNYC all organize around issues related to the struggle of undocumented youth to access quality education in the United States. Data collected from the study is decidedly cross-cultural, with partici- pants articulating visions of themselves and their future in relation to their cultural heritage and their inter-subjective ethical learning. Implications from the study provide insight to educators, researchers, and community-based organizations about educating immigrant youth and others on pressing issues around immigrant learning. INTRODUCTION The study explored in this chapter, the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City (DKPNYC), was inspired by many hours of work with youth activists in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. At that time, I was co-facilitating the Human Rights Activist Project (HRAP), the social action program of the youth development work designed by Global Kids (GK) at an after-school program housed at a local public high school. I had spent time teaching in the New York City Department of Education previously, and had not anticipated the level of shared intellectualism and inquiry the youth and adults involved brought to this after school program. As they worked together to build consensus for their unified human rights campaign, they advocated for the importance of organizing around topics from global poverty to the genocide in Darfur and access to education for urban youth of all backgrounds. Elizabeth Bishop University of Pittsburgh, USA