Name: Ivy Van Blerkom

Social Justice Group: Access, Equity and Inequity in Youth Sports

Date of Fieldwork: January 23, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Chris Klein

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On Monday, January 23rd, 2023, my group met with Chris Klein. We talked to Chris about his experience playing youth sports in New York City. He went to a test into public school in Manhattan and played basketball throughout his time there. He played for his school and many club teams throughout the city.

Chris told us about how he has coached different types of things,, including; LREI sports (boys varsity basketball an,d girls volleyball) and a basketball summer camp. He told us about his opinions on the economic diversity in youth sporris told us about how kids can and should play sports with economic diversity and should not just be able to play with kids who can affordograms as they can. We also talked to Chris about how there are youth sports programs that exist in New York City that cost money and some that do not cost any money. He also told us that often in youth sports the quality will increase as the price also increases. This means that some of the more affordable sports programs or free sports programs are not always very high quality.