California Statewide Activist Camp, 2025.

Against the threats of Trump's return, Project 2025, and a second pandemic, the GSA movement builds freedom through basebuilding, mutual aid, and experimentation — from the STAR Freedom School to the Studenthood by 2030 Campaign.

California Statewide Activist Camp, 2019.

#TQYouthPower at the Youth Empowerment Summit. San Francisco, CA.

Thomas is a recipient of the Skylar Lee Leadership & Activism Award. National Gathering of GSA Networks. June 2018.

Youth leaders and GSA staff at National Gathering of GSA Networks. Columbus, Ohio.

National Trans Youth Council members share #OurTransTRUTH at Netroots Nation conference.

National Trans Youth Council, 2017.

National Trans Youth Council celebrates trans and nonbinary students heading #Back2School.

Youth leaders rally at the California state capitol. GSA Advocacy and Youth Leadership Academy (GAYLA).

YES! Youth Empowerment Summit, 2019.

YES! Youth Empowerment Summit, 2011.

From Occupy to Black Lives Matter to March for Our Lives, GSA students and alumni shape the national agenda and close the decade with bold calls for self-determination and abolition.