About Us
Founded in 2022, Citation Needed was created by Ari Wolff and a small group of 3rd-5th graders. In 2024, the project expanded to work with multiple teaching artists, editors, designers, and volunteers, taking on a more formal structure as a workshop series and a small press. Cristina Ferrigno serves as a consistent collaborator, facilitator, designer, and advisor on this project.
Our Mission
Our mission is to create liberatory learning environments and publications that prioritize joy, creative exploration, and intergenerational dialogue. We view publishing as a tool for self-expression, literacy development, and the exchange of ideas, strategies, and resources. Through our workshops, we engage this tradition by inviting children, artists, and communities into collaborative authorship.
We are committed to creating spaces that prioritize unlearning systems of oppression and honor the humanity of all people. We recognize the potential of creative writing, drawing, and bookmaking as vital pathways for education, intergenerational organizing, and youth justice.
Contact us.
citationneededpress@gmail.com
@citation_ needed_ press