An interactive youth summit is aiming to uplift the voices of young girls of color in Brooklyn.

Dozens of middle and high school girls filled Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday for interactive workshops and conversations on leadership, identity and self-advocacy.

City leaders are raising concerns about the lack of after school spaces for Brooklyn teenagers after videos of massive crowds gathering and causing trouble for businesses went viral. Meanwhile, The Dinner Table Doc and YWCA Brooklyn want to paint a different picture.

“We can grow together, we could overcome in this time of, like, just life and all these troubles and wars and stuff,” says Riley Baines, a member of the Dinner Table Doc.