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Painted Circle Community Partner

Teens of Color Abroad

Education, Diversity, Equity, Justice, Social

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Teens of Color Abroad creates global language learning and cultural exchange programs for high school students of color.

About Us

Teens of Color Abroad (TOCA) provides high school students of color with global language learning opportunities. Our founder, Lamar Shambley, created TOCA to confront the racial disparity in language learning, cultural exchange, and study abroad opportunities affecting U.S. high schoolers of color. We primarily serve Black/African-American students, who are highly underrepresented in college study-abroad programs.

Our virtual and in-person programs offer students intensive Arabic, Spanish, or French language study, and cultural exchange workshops that connect our students to the world.

Inclusion

Teens of Color Abroad

is part of the movement

We join Painted Circle in the effort to make a more inclusive world. Together with Painted Circle, we are helping connect more people and places to opportunity and uplift.

Teens of Color Abroad

& Painted Circle

To make travel a force for good, Painted Circle contributes a portion of all membership sales to nonprofits working to make the world a better place. Just use the following coupon code when you upgrade to Painted Circle Radius - you will save 10% on Radius AND 10% of your purchase is directed to our organization to support our mission.

Copy our coupon code:

CIRCLE2003

Once you have our code copied, just head to the Painted Circle shop to get Radius!

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