Redefining What a National Youth Organization Can Do

We work against the grain of youth education culture.

We know the charismatic group of youth leaders alone can’t change the trajectory of youth transportation. We’re working to make youth transportation justice become a part of people’s everyday train of thought.

For over a decade, we’ve led initiatives like Global Youth Traffic Safety Month, the Youth Voice / Your Action Infrastructure Contest, and the largest youth-powered national convening on transportation equity.

We’ve collaborated with powerful companies like Bentley Education, HopSkipDrive, Lyft, and U.S DOT - while empowering thousands of young people to harness their youth voice in addressing today’s transportation challenges.

Today, we’ve moved beyond raising youth voices to propelling a national strategy transforming youth transportation.

We’re cultivating a generation of powerful entrepreneurs, leaders and designers to orchestrate a new youth transportation experience.

Our complex history is our catalyst.


Our history dates back to the late 90s with our founding as

Five things you should know about us:

  • Horning multiple truths and believing in the expertise of lived experiences; we intentionally bringing youth at the margins to the center of our transformative youth programming, organizational priorities and designing solutions.

  • We challenge business as usual in how we work as an organization, with our stakeholders and broader society.

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  • We choose to believe in something bigger than ourselves, which means the young people equipped to change the realities of today, will instill respect for future efforts beyond us.

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Our History

Composing Youth Mobility began as a direct follow-up.

While the Executive Director of National Organizations for Youth Safety, our founder, Jacob Smith, envisioned and launched the National Youth Transportation Equity Convening in Denver, CO— that became the largest youth gathering on transportation equity in the U.S.

The convening became a call for transformation — where ideas met action, power challenged conversations and youth voices composed a new manifesto. The multigenerational gathering convened the innovators, artist, designers, leaders and organizers ready to name the truths of today and the burdens of tomorrow. The heightened energy and calls for a fundamental transformation of youth transportation across social, political, cultural and economic experiences.

That call for transformation sunsetted National Organizations for Youth Safety in it’s 20th year.

Creating who we are today.