We’re excited to announce the launch of two new programs through our Artist-in-Residency initiative. Beat Making and Art Studio both launch the first week in February. Like all of our programs, these are free and open to any high-school-age teen.

Join us for free Black History Month events all month long at NZ!

Restorative practices and student voice play crucial roles in fostering a safe climate for students to thrive in school. .. click to read the article by Annie M. White and John Kenneth Weiss

Double your gift! Giving Tuesday is today, Nov 29th. Please join us online - facebook is matching all new *recurring* monthly donations up to $100 made now through December 31st or until the match fund runs out.

Congratulations to John Weiss for Youth Driven Spaces being featured in the Journal of Youth Development!

Join us! This summer, Neutral Zone offers six weeks of FREE safe, socially-distant summer programs June 20th - July 29th in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.

Join your local government! Online applications are due April 19th.

How does Neutral Zone build our strategic plan? Like everything else, teens take an active role along with Neutral Zone staff and adult board members.

Where did we grow up? What are our beliefs and values? How does our gender, race and ethnicity matter? At Neutral Zone, teens are engaging in dialogue and creating art expressing different identities that matter to them.

You likely already know that after over a year of isolation, remote learning, canceled plans, and zoom everything, connection is what teens desperately need right now. See how you can help.

Thank you to Deb Polich and David Fair for featuring Neutral Zone on WEMU 89.1’s creative:impact radio program. Read the article or click the link to listen to the broadcast.

We are beyond excited to share some incredible news. Neutral Zone has received a transformational gift from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett.

Neutral Zone Executive Director Lori Roddy and former NZ Board Members Linh Song and Praveena Ramaswami are featured in this spotlight on AAPID (Asian American Pacific Islander and Desi) women leaders in our community.

Led by the teens in our Activism program, Neutral Zone is highlighting AAPID (Asian American Pacific |slander & Desi) Heritage this month. NZ is celebrating AAPID heritage as well as highlighting racism being faced by the AAPID community.

2021 National Youth Poet Laureate Virtual Ceremony to be Hosted by Urban Word and The Kennedy Center. See local youth poet Faye Harrison compete in the virtual National Youth Poet Laureate Commencement Ceremony on May 20, 2021 at 7pm

The Neutral Zone unequivocally stands with transgender youth. Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is intolerable and damaging to the health and safety of children, families, and our community.