Celina Seck remembers leaving a City Council meeting last year feeling anything but hopeful. The now-Bryn Mawr College student is one of the founders of Students Against the Sixers Arena (SASA), a high school student-led organization formed while she was at Central High School in 2023 in solidarity with other organizations that were protesting locating a new 76ers basketball arena next to Chinatown.

That day, not only did Seck have to endure a frustrating Council meeting, but she also witnessed violent police arrests of some of her fellow protestors in City Hall. It was a challenging few hours. But then she came back to the Ginger Arts Center.

“I remember walking through the door and the center was just packed,” Seck says. “Some people were on the couch or in bean bags talking with

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