Youth Advisory Board The Washington Ethnic Studies Now (WAESN) Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is made up of students from Washington State who meet monthly to share their work and ideas around supporting Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington Schools, helping advise the WAESN Executive Team’s steps for expansion. We have a unique opportunity as the WAESN Youth Advisory Board to speak our goals and dreams into reality. As a new organization, we have the flexibility and power to create a better future for minoritized students. Want to join the YAB? Click here. James Young he/him Lake Washington School District, Redmond James Young is a current junior in high school and is passionate about social justice and advocacy work. Particularly, he’s focused on reforming educational institutions to both close opportunity gaps and advance equality in curricula. In line with this vision, he serves as the secretary of his school’s Education Coalition for Asian American Representation (ECAAR, for short) and works with both local and national organizations to push for change. He’s excited to work with WAESN in pursuit of collective liberation both in and out of the classroom. Priyanka Mukhara she/her Harvard University, Cambridge Priyanka Mukhara is a sophomore at Harvard University studying education policy and race. She is an avid advocate for Ethnic Studies, from WAESN’s Youth Advisory Board to Harvard’s Ethnic Studies Coalition. On campus, Priyanka is involved with the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, Taskforce for Asian Progressive Advocacy and Studies, Harvard-Radcliffe Emerging Leaders Program, and Harvard Taekwondo. She is also the founder of the youth activism organization Education for Equality and an Ignite Fellow with Teach for America. Xitlalli Hammond they/them Seattle Central College, Seattle Xitlalli, or “X,” is a recent graduate of The Center School in Seattle. They are a freshman at Seattle Central College where they hope to earn a degree in the culinary arts. X is passionate about queer justice and racial justice.