CommuniversityTransforming communities through political education

An inclusive, barrier-free, no-cost learning space for the community — building resilience, agility and leadership rooted in cooperation, not rugged individualism.

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Communiversity uplifts the tremendous knowledge that exists in communities and invites community members to build and share their own courses on the things they care about. We also provide courses taught by leading activists, organizers, academics, researchers, and public intellectuals that community members otherwise wouldn’t be able to access.

From the school-to-prison pipeline to divestment from public education in criminalized neighborhoods, the relationship between the education system and communities decimated by mass incarceration has been adversarial. Communiversity is community-led, community-created, and community-curated to meet our wants and needs.

19: courses taught, from People’s History to Mutual Aid
18: instructors — organizers, scholars and artists
$0: cost to learn. Barrier-free, always.

All Art is PoliticalBuild Your Own Cooperative BusinessFrom Guaranteed Income to Guaranteed InvestmentCapitalism vs Socialism vs CommunismEstate and End-of-Life PlanningFinancial Empowerment and IndependenceGangs: Myths, TruthsGraphic Design: From Canva to InDesignIdeation to ExecutionIndigenous Land-Based Healing Practices

Local to Global: Pan African OrganizingPeople’s History: Local and GlobalProfessionalism vs. LeadershipReparations NowSoul-Writing: Writing As MedicineThe Inequitable Distribution of WealthWhat is a Community Land TrustWhat is Mutual AidUnderstanding Local Governance

Ripple effects

A course ends. The work begins.

With basic needs met through guaranteed income, housing, and healthcare, participation has been rich, full, and extremely successful.

After the course on Community Land Trust
Community members ran a door-to-door campaign to build a Bed-Stuy community land trust.
After the course on Soul-Writing
Gang leaders in Brooklyn organized meditation circles for their members.
After the course on Cooperative Business
Two community food establishments began transitioning to co-ops with Green Workers Cooperative.
After the course on Financial Empowerment
Members secured a Prospect Hill Foundation grant to open investment accounts with recycled bail funds.

Elevia

Where potential meets opportunity.

Elevia is Communiversity’s partnership with Future Allies for young people — engaging traditional educational pathways with a long-term, care-centered approach. It turns “it takes a village” into a structured, living ecosystem of care, preparation, and opportunity.

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