Selam Ainalem
 Selam Ainalem is a sixteen year old junior at Cleveland high school. She is a running start student at North Seattle Community College. She loves to volunteer and currently volunteers at Carkeek Park as a salmon steward. She tutors students in the math center at North Seattle Community College. Her hobbies are traveling, playing the piano, and hanging out with friends.
Cassie Barojas-Tapia
 Cassie Barojas Tapia is Fourteen Years old and attends Evergreen High School. She learned how to play the violin and is currently trying to learn how to play the piano. She lives with her two younger sisters and her parents. She credits her parents with the guidance and support that has helped her to become a better person. Her sisters have also impacted her greatly because she recognizes that she has to be a good role model for them. She loves to play just about any sport and try new things. Cassie also loves to help people when they are in need. She is most passionate about helping out others and making a brighter future for her community.
Zabia Colovos
 Zabia Colovos is a senior at Lakeside School and lives in Fremont. She joined the mayor’s youth council this year because she wanted the opportunity to help the mayor address issues that youth in the Seattle area have to deal with; specifically education, gang violence, and hate/brutality based on gender identity and race. Zabia enjoys volunteering at El Centro de la Raza (playing with and serving food to the elderly) and taking her gender studies elective. In her free time she loves being athletic, listening to and making music, writing, spending time with friends, and having meaningful debates or conversations with people she knows as well as strangers.
Tiffany Do
 Tiffany Do is currently a junior at Seattle Preparatory School. She is the oldest of three in her family and always finds time to assist her sisters with their schoolwork while balancing her rigorous academic schedule. In the fall she participates on the school’s golf team and in the winter she enjoys the intensity of chess. On the weekends, she volunteers her time at various soup kitchens and is planning to volunteer at the University of Washington’s Medical Center soon. Ever since the age of three, she has always wanted to pursue a career in the medical field, especially neurology. This year, she has decided to aim her focus on helping the marginalized population in Seattle’s society.
Samuel Fentahun
 Samuel Fentahun is a sophomore at Garfield High school. He attends meetings at Team Versatility in New Holly. He is on the Mayor’s Youth Council because he wants to fully understand how to work with the city and how to better his community.
Alex Jonlin
 Alex Jonlin is a junior at Garfield High School. He lives in the Ravenna neighborhood of northeast Seattle. He has been involved in politics for several years, founding the Washington State Legislative Youth Advisory Council in 2005 and interning and volunteering for political organizations and campaigns regularly. At school he is a member of the debate club and plays the clarinet in the marching band. His primary interest outside of politics is public transit, and he plans to go to college and study Urban Studies and Political Science once he gets out of high school.
Yongyong Li
 YongYong Li is a sophomore at Roosevelt High school. She joined the Mayor’s Youth Council as a representative of the North East area. She is passionate about integrating races to create a more diverse society; she is passionate about homelessness, and violence prevention. She is a serious violist, who plays in a number of different organizations such a Roosevelt Orchestra. She plays for the Roosevelt tennis team, and helps with making costumes for the school musicals. She has also volunteered at local soup lines and food banks. As an advocate for minorities, she will work hard to make sure everyone has equal opportunities.
Njeri Mburu
 Fleciah Mburu is a sophomore at Franklin high school. She represents the Southeast neighborhood, and represents the youth in her community that can’t voice their opinions. She is an S.A.S.L representative. She is most passionate about gang violence and the drop in high school graduation rates. She wants to go to college and get her major in law, political science, and or economy.
Max Miner
 Max Miner lives in southern Ballard and is currently in his last year at Ballard high school, where he is a member of the Biotech Academy. He works at the Ballard library has also put in over 200 hours volunteering for the Washington Trails Association. The issues that most capture his interest as a second year member of the SYC are domestic violence and homelessness.
Sarah Servin
 Sarah Servin is a junior attending Holy Names Academy. She represents the South Park neighborhood. She is one of the officers of the National Honor Society chapter at Holy Names. She also volunteers at Sea Mar Community Health Center and Baby Boutique. She wants to provide a voice for her unrepresented youth of South Park.
Rosie Spracklin
 Rosie Spracklin is a Senior at Ballard High School and lives in Magnolia. She is on Ballard’s varsity girls soccer team and a member of the Model United Nations club. Rosie is really interested in the new forms of public transportation emerging in Seattle, such as the South Lake Union Streetcar, and hopes to help those systems grow.
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Abby Chin-Martin
 Abby Chin-Martin is a senior at Holy Names Academy and represents the Capitol Hill Neighborhood. She’s played select soccer since she was ten years old and currently is an assistant coach for the HNA JV soccer team. She is also the co-president of psychology club. She is also a volunteer with Outdoorsforall and teaches skiing to developmentally disabled children. She is interested in promoting equal rights and opportunities for the physically and mentally disabled.
Alex Curtis
 Alex is currently a junior at Lakeside School. When he is not doing his school work, he participates in varsity swimming, crew and plays alto saxophone in the school jazz band. Through the Seattle Youth Commission he hopes to serve the city by addressing the topics of education and homelessness.
Loey May Engel
 Loey May Engel lives in Ballard and is a senior at Ballard High School. At Ballard Loey May is involved with the Biotech Academy and the Academy of Finance. She is the Academy of Finance representative for the Seattle Academy Student Leaders, where she serves as the Assistant Chair. Loey May works at the Magnolia Public Library and in her free time loves to read, sail around the Gulf Islands and relax. Next year Loey May hopes to attend a college in the northwest and study economics and political science. The issue that she feels most passionate about is homelessness and the surrounding issues of mental health problems and lack of social services for those in need. This is her 2nd year on the council.
Adrienne Johnson
 Adrienne Johnson is a senior attending Garfield High school. She represents the Central area neighborhood. She is involved in CAN (College Access Now). She enjoys reading and also participates on her schools softball team. She likes to help people. Her future plans include going to college and majoring in psychology.
Etevise Leiato
 Etevise Leiato is a senior attending Evergreen high school. She represents the White Center neighborhood. She is the student body president of her school. She also participates in drama club and Polynesian club. She is part of her church’s worship team and volunteers in the children’s program at her church. She is most passionate about the success of Pacific Islander students in education.
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Lydia Lippold-Gelb
 Lydia Lippold-Gelb is a Senior at Nathan Hale High School, and is representing the Wedgwood neighborhood. Lydia has created two clubs at Nathan Hale: the Bowling Club, and the Students for Barack Obama club. She has worked for the past 4 years at the Experimental Education Unit Summer Camp with developmentally delayed children. Lydia also volunteers as a tutor once a week at the North Seattle Family Center. One issue that she is very passionate about is ending homelessness in Seattle. She wants to see more low income housing in Seattle, so that everyone can have a place to live.
Catherine Quinn
 Catherine Quinn is a seventeen year old junior attending The Center School. She represents the West Seattle and Fremont neighborhoods. Catherine has spent time volunteering at shelters for battered women and at Teen Feed. She is most passionate about improving the Seattle Public schools and improving the public transportations system within the city. As of right now, she wants to go to college and major in one of the following fields: architecture, psychology, economics, liberal arts, and law. She hasn’t decided which one yet.
Lucas Smith
 Lucas Smith is a junior at Garfield High School and a lifelong Seattle resident. This is his second year on the Mayor's Youth Council. Lucas is very passionate about transportation and land use in Seattle and the region. He has worked as an intern with Climate Action Now, as a volunteer on 2008's MassTransitNow campaign, and as an organizer of the Social Political Activism Group at his church. Lucas plays the cello in the Garfield Orchestra, chooses alternative modes of transportation, and umpires youth baseball.
Adam Stansell
 Adam Stansell lives in Beacon Hill. He spent second semester of his
sophomore year in Mexico, and is now in his Junior year at Garfield
High School. He plays soccer year round, and hopes to attend college
in California. He is especially passionate about education. As a
student, he has seen and experienced various problems within the
education system and would like to change things.
LeJayah Washington
 Le'Jayah Washington is a first year member of the Seattle Youth Commission. She is passionate about her community and youth violence issues.
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Arielle Washington is currently a senior attending Chief Sealth High School. She has been involved with the Mayor's Youth Council/ Seattle Youth Commission for three years now. As a third year member she performs staff duties as the SYC Intern.