Career Spaces
Future@Work started as a career fair in Street Works Earth 2025, co-designed by a group or organizations asking: what if career development were rooted in justice, care, creativity, and community?
Co-Designers
WE ACT’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
ALIGN is a longstanding alliance of labor and community organizations united for a just and sustainable New York.
At the New York City level, ALIGN leads Climate Works for All, a coalition of labor, community, faith, environmental justice, and climate organizations fighting climate change and inequality in NYC by demanding a Just Transition for workers and Environmental Justice communities. Our mission is to decarbonize and make resilient NYC’s building sector while centering workers and environmental justice communities to improve people’s quality of life, health, our environment, and climate
Central to this work is our Green, Healthy Schools campaign. NYC 3K-12 students, teachers, parents, and school staff deserve safe and healthy workplaces.
Street Works is a community of artists and neighbors building relationships and civic action with art. We create opportunities in public spaces for people to collaborate in making beautiful work that introduces community issues in unusual ways.
Job Resources
Check out this resource space, created by ALIGN and Street Works, meant for people looking to work in progressive nonprofit, social enterprise, or justice centered work.
Join an open house where neighbors can drop in and connect with people involved in local community practices. A guest from the Department of Labor (DOL) will be there to offer resume feedback!
A not from co-designers of Future@Work, a career fair within 2025 Street Works Earth, and co-dreamers of a future that works for all of us.
Join Make Justice Normal and Street Works for a joyful street arts and climate action festival in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, on September 21 (Sept 27 rain date).
Take the survey for a career fair, called Future@Work, as part of Street Works 2025, concentrated mostly from 12-2pm on Sept 21.
2025 Street Works Earth Activities
Check here for 2025 activities designed for Future@Work. And click here to see how all activities weaved together. If you have experience in New York City leading on the topic or know somebody that does, we'd love to hear from you. Please see a contact form below.
~10-20 min each, Department of Labor
Bring a draft of your resume and get 1-on-1 advice on how to organize your story. You must sign up in advance!
12:00-4:15PM, ~25 Individuals
See who’s sharing their career journey during Street Works. Hear from folks at different points in their careers as they chat about how they got to where they are and the challenges along the way. Not a lecture. Bring your questions!
12:00-2:00PM, Girl + Environment
Can any job help the climate crisis? Where do you even start to find a job that helps you and the environment? Girl + Environment (GPE) has got you!
12-12:55PM, NYS Department of Labor
Breaking down the essentials of building a resume that reflects your path, passions, and potential.
1:15–2:10pm, Dabima
How to apply for college, including important fall deadlines and how to navigate complicated application processes.
1:15 – 2:10pm, Rachel Bouton
Step into a supportive and confidence-building circle to practice interviews with a skilled improv performer.
1:15–2:10pm, Sunny Roberts & Jessica Bauman
Reflect together on who is part of our support systems for daily needs, growth, and work, and how we can expand our circles together.
~10-20 min each, 11AM-12PM & 1-2:45PM, Department of Labor; sign up if interested
Bring a draft of your resume and meet 1-on-1 with a participant for advice on how to organize your story. You must sign up in advance!
12:00-12:55 PM, Jennifer Blair, Ma.Ed.
How to apply for public high school in NYC, from deadlines to exploring schools that match your interests, including climate.
All day, (Focus on Future@Work 12-2PM), Satia Koroma & Natalie Bedon/Street Works/MJN
Navigators will help you make sense of the environment, learn about the event, and offer ideas about which activities might best match your interests.
12-12:55PM, New York Power Authority
Stop by to learn how electricity works, and career paths in energy and engineering.