Welcome to Mission 1477, YEBO’s current statewide storytelling initiative. Mission 1477 grew out of the year (2016) our CEO and founder, Cory Montalvo, served as a dean of students at a school in Five Points, Denver. That year alone, teachers sent students to Cory’s office to be disciplined a total of 1,477 times. Mission 1477 represents the number of stories YEBO aims to publish to center the voices and experiences of BIPOC-identifying youth across the state of Colorado. Each story exists as an opportunity to transform the 1,477 instances youth were silenced during Cory’s tenure as a dean into moments of self-expression and joy. Through voice, we live!