Christina Nguyen

Christina Nguyen has been a Spokes leader with Youth Speaks Seattle for two years and is now the Youth Speaks Seattle and Teen Leadership Coordinator. She an aspiring poet and multimedia artist. Christina is empowered to search and find her own voice with the resilient tools and new ideas she learns every day from her family in Youth Speaks Seattle. She hopes to channel her energy to others to help find and use their own power in the voices they were born with through the magic of assisting poetry classes, listening to and asking enlightening questions to conversation, and truly believing in others. Christina has worked as a facilitator for Seattle Participatory Budgeting: Youth Voice, Youth Choice in assisting youth delegates to write and pass proposals for the homelessness crisis in Seattle, classroom assistance with Spruce Street Crisis Residential Center, and freelances. On her spare time, you can catch Christina hanging out in the garden and picking leaves and lavender to give out to people she cares about.

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