Stakeholder Analysis
The following a list of stakeholders who are involved in Rainier Beach and youth development and improvement planning and would participate in a Rainier Beach installation project. I put Rainier Beach High School ( RBHS) leadership at large because the school has been in the process of seeking out a new principal. It’s last principal would have been a huge stakeholder for youth in Rainier Beach if not the largest one because his vision was one of empowerment and personal relationship building. He is currently working within the mayor’s office of Seattle and now many of our youth feel that their relationship has been fractured due to tension between governmental offices and the scholars themselves.
- Seattle Public Schools
- Rainier Beach, a Beautiful and Safe Place for Youth
- Seattle Neighborhood Group
- RBHS Scholars
- Seattle Police Department
- Urban Impact Seattle
- Rainier Beach Chamber of Commerce
- Rainier Beach Community Center
- RBHS Freedom Schools
- Success City
I can work within these organizations and entities as an advocate and use my personal relationships within in SPS, RBHS, Rainier Beach Community Center ( RBCC), RBHS Freedom Schools and Urban Impact Seattle and so many others to truly be a voice for children in the making of this project.
The barriers to working with these groups has been slightly touched on earlier but I think the biggest barrier is connecting our scholars with SPD. I think there can often a distaste in the mouth of each party of each other but I think having more conversations and being able to do accomplish small things in the community will enable youth to see that the SPD ( as a whole) as for them despite isolated incidents of police-initiated youth brutality.
At the end of the day, this project is not about showing the police or school board that these children’s lives matter but for them to have enough ability to stand up for themselves and to advocate for themselves as to why they matter and what they want to do with their lives. Recently, there was an SPD and RBHS basketball game at the community center and I believe that “small events” like that have the ability to reframe and humanize our viewpoints of each other. This a great model to use in overcoming our barriers within the relationship with SPD and RBHS scholars.
This project is sure to experience much molding and remolding. It is my hope that RBHS scholars and artists will come behind it and make it their own vision and not mine. From there, with my access to relationships to stakeholders, we can hopefully withhold the original vision to the best of our ability. There will be much tweaking of the vision when it comes to the planning process and what it will need, which is why I hope that the scholars and artists will have allegiance to this project.