Who is AjA?

The AjA Project is a compassionate space for young people, activists, visual artists and educators to engage critically with issues that affect our community and realize our collective liberation through participatory storytelling and the documentary arts.

Founded in 2000, The AjA Project is an acronym for the phrase Autosuficiencia Junto con Apoyo, meaning “supporting self-sufficiency.”

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A bit of a delayed news -BUT 🎉🎉 We got the grant!!!
Research shows that arts and nature experiencessupport mental, physical, and social well-being, but
this doesn't work when communities can't access them.
We’re honored to be one of the 50 no

To all photographers (age 18 -30) with lived experience of immigration, and have a story to tell! Apply to AJA's Jounrey Documentary Photo Essay Fellowship in partnership with San Diego Museum of Art's MOPA. Come and share your JOURNEY story, take pa

Calling on artists, activists, writers, and poets! Join AjA’s WHO WATCHES WHO! COUNTERSURVEILLANCE Fellowship Program! Learn about the latest surveillance policies and technologies encroaching on our civil liberties and their impact on our comm

We are hiring! Arts & Advocacy Teaching Artist to lead our Countersurveillance fellowship program! Teach, engage and work with the selected fellows and create works to support the ongoing movement against the unaccountable use of surveillance cam

We are pleased to announce our participation as a host institution for the
ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program@ACLS1919, supported by the Mellon Foundation.
In 2026, the program will place recent humanities PhDs in two-year positions with organizati

This past week our Counter Surveillance fellows presented their final project of “Who Watches Who?” on the consequences of surveillance technology on our safety and wellbeing. You can find this evoking “mind map” on @panasandi

Come join us on Jan 30th, 2026 for volunteer canvassing for the “Ground Up” Arts in Parks project led by @theajaproject and @midcitycan We’ll be gathering community input to implement youth-led designs for Officer Jeremy Henwoods Pa

Join us TODAY at 4pm for a showcase of the students’ mural from the Counter Surveillance project, followed by a hands-on Riso poster making workshop!

Recently, our CounterSurveillance fellows went on a field trip to the border to take pic

Today at December 9th at 2pm, SD city will vote on whether to keep the Flock Automatic License Plate Reader system in the city.
Flock is a company known to breach data by passing them to ICE, and cannot be trusted.

This past week, we joined other

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