YCC Leadership
The YCC leadership team is composed of two co-presidents and the committee chairs for the Leadership Training Committee and Outreach Committee.
YCC Committees
Each YCC committee has an influential and critical purpose in the advancement of the program. Below are the role descriptions of each committee:
LEADERSHIP TRAINING COMMITTEE
Builds a unique YCC Training Schedule each year to most effectively deliver programming
Develops training materials for YCC to make sessions even more engaging
Organizes the YCC Social Change Conference each spring to showcase student projects
Collects feedback from YCC fellows to improve the fellowship program year after year
OUTREACH COMMITTEE
Recruits YCC Outreach Coordinators in each D.C. school and across the country
Recruits student activists and adult mentors to form a diverse YCC community
Utilizes social media to build visibility for YCC initiatives
Recruits members from community organizations to participate in YCC
2023-24 Leadership Team
Ach’sah Gubena
Ach’sah Gubena is a senior attending Montgomery Blair High School and a Co-President of Youth Creating Change. Ach’sah is heavily involved in advocacy on the local, state, and nation-wide level. With a strong focus on promoting educational equity, she strives to constantly make meaningful contributions in her community through all her endeavors and efforts.
Zain Blair
Zain Blair is a senior at McKinney High School in the Dallas, Texas area and currently serves as a Co-President of Youth Creating Change. He is passionate about advocating for social change through transformation in policy on all levels — local, state, and national. Through working with YCC, Youth4Beto, and Rideshare2Vote Aware, he hopes to be able to create the change he envisions.
Kevyn Orr
Kevyn Orr is a senior at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. and a chair of the Outreach Committee for Youth Creating Change. He is passionate about issues regarding equality of opportunity and believes that working with youth is the preeminent step in the fight against poverty.
Andres Guerra
Andres Guerra is a senior at John F. Kennedy High School and a chair of the Outreach Committee for Youth Creating Change. He is President of Kennedy’s Students To End Poverty chapter and Secretary of his SGA. Through his advocacy and service work, he has found a passion in inspiring and supporting leaders in his local community and he is very excited to pursue similar efforts with YCC this year.
Devin Lee
Devin Lee is a senior at Quince Orchard High School and the chair of the Leadership Training Committee for Youth Creating Change. He is passionate about giving students a fair education, and believes that youth activism is a great way for a student to make change happen in their community.
2022-23 Leadership Team
Valerie Hoang
Valerie Hoang is a senior at Northwest High School and a Co-President of Youth Creating Change. Her involvement in advocacy was kickstarted after she recognized disparities in education from zip code to zip code in Montgomery County. She is now passionate about teaching and inspiring others to use their voice to take charge in combatting these inequities.
Clay Walsh
Clay Walsh is a senior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Montgomery County, MD and a Co-President of Youth Creating Change. Clay has worked to mitigate disparities in his local community with Students to End Poverty, which combated poverty in the local community with legislative activism, volunteer work, and fundraising.
Ashley Huynh
Ashley Huynh is a senior at Watkins Mill High School and serves as the Chair of the Outreach Committee for Youth Creating Change. Ashley loves amplifying student of color experiences by facilitating equity workshops to educators across the nation.
Ach’sah Gubena
Ach’sah Gubena is a junior attending Montgomery Blair High School and the chair of the Leadership Training Committee for Youth Creating Change. Ach’sah is heavily involved in advocacy on the local, state, and nation-wide level. With a strong focus on promoting educational equity, she strives to constantly make meaningful contributions in her community through all her endeavors and efforts.
