Volunteer for the Summit
Volunteers are wanted for the Sister Cities International California Youth Leadership Summit that will be held online on Friday, May 14, 2021. The event is organized by the Sister Cities International Southern California Chapter and Sister Cities International Northern California Chapter
This nonprofit online event will be run by young professionals and college students for high school and college students throughout California, as well as college students from California’s sister cities around the world.
Date: Frida, May 14, 2021
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm PST
Location: Online
Volunteer Positions:
- coordinating panel sessions
- coordinating the international round table
- coordinating entertainment
- coordinating awards program
- coordinating KIF Konversations
- coordinating event promotions & PR
- coordinating event sponsors
- organizing committee assistance
- graphic design
- video production/editing
- website updating
- social media updating
- tech support
CLICK HERE FOR THE VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION FORM
Summit Overview
The overriding theme of the online Sister Cities International California Youth Leadership Summit is “Peace, Kindness and Cooperation” The online event will feature:
- opening presentations
- a series of themed short panel discussions addressing issues that are most important to our youth and their future well being. Panelists: high school and college students. Moderators: college students and young professionals
- an international round table featuring college participants from California’s sister cities around the world
- special guests
- entertainment
- an award ceremony
Steven Trinh, Founding College Chair
2021 California Youth Leadership Summit College Chair (Stanford University)
Steven Trinh, Founding College Chair
2021 California Youth Leadership Summit College Chair (Stanford University)Steven Trinh is a Sister Cities International Southern California Chapter Young Professional and the California Youth Leadership Summit College Chair. Steven is a junior at Stanford University studying Product Design. He strives to use his skills and knowledge in design engineering to develop impactful solutions for problems that hurt lower socio-economic communities. Outside of school, Steven’s interests include basketball, hip hop, fashion, and sneakers. Steven’s involvement in Sister Cities began in the summer of 2016, when he served as a student ambassador to the Anaheim-Mito sister city exchange program. In the following summers, he has hosted Japanese students in this same program, where he has developed many meaningful relationships that last to this day.
Maya Al-Jamie, Founding HS Chair
2021 California Youth Leadership Summit High School Chair (Orange Lutheran High School)
Maya Al-Jamie, Founding HS Chair
2021 California Youth Leadership Summit High School Chair (Orange Lutheran High School)Maya Al-Jamie is a Sister Cities International Southern California Chapter Youth Ambassador and the California Youth Leadership Summit High School Chair. Through her involvement as a SoCal Sister Cities Youth Ambassador and a volunteer helping to host students from overseas as well as guide students from California on a tour of Tokyo, Maya was inspired to volunteer for the California Youth Leadership Summit. Maya is currently a junior at Orange Lutheran High School. Prior to the pandemic, she played on the Villa Park High School water polo and swim team as well as participated on the mock trial team as an expert witness. Currently, she is the President of the Orange County, California Chapter of High School Democrats of America and the Vice President of the Orange/Anaheim Chapter of Dear Asian Youth. Her plans for the future are to study neuroscience and women’s studies on a pre-med track. After college, she plans on attending medical school to become an OB-GYN and help give women of color and lower socioeconomic status access to better quality health care.
Michael Avila
California Youth Leadership Summit Outreach Chair (California State University, San Bernardino)
Michael Avila
California Youth Leadership Summit Outreach Chair (California State University, San Bernardino)
Katie Lewis
Event Coordinator - SCI SoCal Young Professional (Loyola Marymount University)
