home purpose & story vision & values our chapters the council the staff contact info	the staff BYOP's staff consists of some of the best organizers from "around the world"! Najma Nazyat Najma is the fabulous Lead Organizer/Director for BYOP. Najma Nazy'at is the Director/Lead Organizer of the Boston Youth Organizing Project (BYOP). Najma has worked in youth programs and in the youth development field for over fifteen years. She previously served as a Youth Program Coordinator of the Central Branch YMCA's Teen Center. After the YMCA, Najma served on a team at The Medical Foundation as a lead trainer to usher in the Boston BEST Initiative, a professional development and field building effort that supports Youth Development systematically and institutionally. Najma has consulted and trained nationally with organizations such as the Boston Community Building Curriculum, Interaction Institute for Social Change, and Listen, Inc. Shaka McPherson Shaka is the Leadership & Innovation Fellow and a BYOP alumnus. Shaka began his organizing legacy at the age of 13 being inspired by his fellow peers and by the injustice and inequality that he experienced and witnessed. As Leadership & Innovation Fellow, Shaka uses the values, beliefs, and organizing tools that he has acquired over the years at BYOP and applied in campaigns for youth safety & access to the MBTA, youth jobs & opportunities, guidance counselors in BPS, and school improvement campaigns in O'Bryant. In addition, Shaka is a Hip Hop Organizer (H2O) at Hip Hop Media Lab (H2ML) Boston Chapter and is a member of Hip Hop National Political Convention. H2ML is a group focused on reflecting & projecting the positive images of hip-hop while providing a historic foundation with a futuristic vision with an artistic application. While doing these things he is deeply spiritually grounded and is a Deacon at Hyde Park Presbyterian Church currently serving his 2nd term as Minister of Public Relations for the Deacons of Hyde Park Presbyterian Church. Collique K. Williams Ofiice Manager a BYOP alumnus Hi I'm Collique. And i am the BYOP office manager. I Help take care of the day to day needs of BYOP. I have a unique understanding of those needs considering i was one a youth on the BYOP council myself. I have been involved with the origination since 2000 so i have a special bond with it and the people here which i try to carry over into my work. I hope i can continue to affect the organization from the background giving the same kind of adult support that i received when i was a youth here. Ashlee Adams Chapter Organizer a BYOP alumnus Hello out there in Internet Land!!!! My name is Ashlee Adams. I am a Chapter Organizer for the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science and the Snowden International High School in Boston. I became a member of Boston-area Youth Organizing Project at the age of 16. I am also an alumnae from Cambridge Rindge and Latin Chapter of ’06 and was on an At Large position here at BYOP. I loved going to BYOP when I was younger because I wasn’t just any young intelligent person, I was a young intelligent person with a voice. I don’t only do work at BYOP I also work at Science Club for Girls (SCFG). And this organization is to help girls understand science with hands-on experiments. This and BYOP helped identify my personality because I am a corky scientific organizer with a thrill for change. And coming to see 5 years later that there are still youth out here with the same passion I had and still have as a young woman.
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