In 2001, the staff the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) along with The People's Institute of Survival and Beyond, established the Seattle Freedom School.
[8] Two local groups which emerged were Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR), workshop's activist arm,[9] and Taking Care of Kids is Power.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was among the community organizations that mentored YUIR, which conducted regular sessions with youth on a variety of issues relevant to their lives.
YUIR and Taking Care of Kids is Power tackled the lack of multicultural curriculum, and racial disparities in discipline and achievement in the Seattle Public Schools.
[11] The 2001 Seattle Freedom School was a five-day organizing workshop which taught about 20 youth and young adults about racism, sexism, homophobia, and social justice.
For five decades Scott worked as a community organizer in Seattle, fighting discriminatory hiring practices, breaking through racial barriers in the trade unions, starting worker-to-worker programs which linked the struggle of American workers to workers overseas, and co-founding the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO).
[15] Freedom School students participate in various field trips, such as a historical tour of Seattle's Central District, the Wing Luke Museum, El Centro de la Raza, and the Tulalip reservation.t.