Meet the Team
Our Team
Keno D. Walker
Keno Walker began organizing at just 13 years old after witnessing how the school-to-prison pipeline tore through his own family. A proud Miami native, he grew up in a state that mandates police in schools — transforming that lived experience into leadership.
Through AEJ leadership opportunities, Keno developed as a youth leader, organizer, and eventually education coordinator before becoming Co-Executive Director. Following the Parkland shooting, when Florida expanded school police funding, he led a 4-year-long Police-Free Schools campaign in Miami-Dade — one of the few districts with its own police department.
Keno’s work is rooted in developing new generations of youth to take up the fight — pushing for alternatives to school policing, building restorative justice practices, expanding mental health supports, and ensuring youth-driven decision-making in schools and communities across the country.
Leidy Robledo
Leidy Robledo has spent over 15 years organizing alongside youth to transform schools and reclaim education as a space of freedom and self-determination. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, she carries the legacy of communal struggle and dignity — rooted in her family’s connection to ejidos, collective land in Mexico.
Leidy began organizing as a middle school student, leading walkouts to challenge injustice. Thanks to AEJ’s Youth Leadership program (YJC), she became a youth organizer-in-training and later a full-time youth organizer with Padres y Jóvenes Unidos, now Movimiento Poder. Since then, she’s helped build campaigns for immigrant student rights, to end the school-to-prison pipeline, and to win police-free schools.
She played a key role in launching Cops Outta Campus and co-founded the National Campaign for Police-Free Schools. Today, as Co-Executive Director of AEJ, Leidy helps lead a national youth-led alliance fighting state violence and building power for a liberatory education system grounded in safety, care, and collective freedom.
