SPARK

Stories of Power, Agency, Resilience, and Kinship

SPARK LOGOA series curated by Vivian Tseng, FCD President and CEO, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, University Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, NYU Steinhardt

In 2025-2026, the Foundation is publishing Stories of Power, Agency, Resilience, and Kinship. Our authors—from academia, advocacy, organizing, and beyond—will share what it means to meet this moment with courage, clarity, creativity, and conviction as they work to protect and support children in immigrant families.

Each piece in this series will illuminate how individuals, communities, or organizations resist oppression with the hope that emerges, not from naive optimism but, from the daily choice to act, build, push back, or hold the line.  Our ancestors fought for justice in immigration policy, civil rights, education, healthcare, and more. Today, we carry their work forward for future generations. We hope you will find as much hope and inspiration in these stories as we have in bringing them together.

  • What is Resistance? Do a Hopeful Thing. And Then Do It Again.

    First-graders displayed so much anxiety that their teachers were asking for help.

    December 17, 2025 • Read More
  • A Solidarity Moment Rooted in Historical Lessons

    Stories of Power, Agency, Resilience, and Kinship: Authors from academia, advocacy, organizing, and beyond share what it means to meet this moment with courage, clarity, creativity, and conviction as they work to protect and support children in immigrant families.

    November 28, 2025 • Read More
  • We’re Child Care Organizers. But We Couldn’t Ignore Immigrant Rights.

    Stories of Power, Agency, Resilience, and Kinship: Authors from academia, advocacy, organizing, and beyond share what it means to meet this moment with courage, clarity, creativity, and conviction as they work to protect and support children in immigrant families.

    October 29, 2025 • Read More
  • Stories of Power, Agency, Resilience, and Kinship (SPARK) 

    At the Foundation for Child Development, our Board and Staff have been reflecting on our ancestors—immigrants, refugees, and enslaved people — whose resilience and resistance light our path as we work to ensure that all children, in every community, have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

    September 29, 2025 • Read More