Hola!
My name is Marisol but my closest friends call me Mini-sol or Mary. I am 18yrs old and am looking forward to start my freshman year at DePaul University this fall. I am a versatile individual with many interests such as the performing arts (I love to play the violin) and conserving the environment. I have often been compared to Lisa Simpson because of my thirst for knowledge and social action. I have been a volunteer at Little Village Environmental Justice Organization for the past five years and I currently serve on their Board. I decided to join Youthlab because it enables me to use media in order to spread awareness and create a positive social change.

Hello everyone. My name is Andres Quiroz (Also known as Andy or Jason Bourne). I am a Curie Alumni and about to start the College life. I enjoy writing screenplays, filming, editing, and directing short films. I love to analyze mystery thriller films and read books with the same themes. What I like to do is run and create film ideas.
P.S. I would like to thank Seemi for the wonderful picture she took of me with her precise photography. She got my good side Thank you.

Hey, my name is Zane Scheuerlein and I am a 16 year old junior at Evanston Township High School. I’m a simple man with big ambitions. I want to go to a nice college and get a great education, but I’m still not sure what I want do. I love making movies and I want to be a director. I love doing graphic design and I want to be a graphic designer. I also love having an effect on decisions that affect how the world is run and I want to be a politician. In my spare time I play lots of video games such as Gears of War and World of Warcraft. I also play lacrosse during the spring as a midfielder and do volunteer work during the summer. I also love to play poker with my friends from middle school. I have a lot of goals and doing YouthLAB will hopefully help in fulfilling my goals.

YouthLAB Barbados is Mela (Facilitator), Damian, Carlos, Mindy (Facilitator), Alana, Ramona, Eli, Sarah and David.

About Me: I’m 17, Senior, who goes to Curie High School. I’m an aspiring journalist and hope to travel all around the world while covering global events. Love astrology and I plan on being a professional astrologer in my adult years. I love to read and appreciate all forms of art especially photography. Currently I’m with several organizations that fight for LGBT rights in different ways such as About Face Theatre and I was a past member of the GLSEN chapter organization. I also attend YCA (Young Chicago Authors) and am on the Say What Magazine board and during the school year I also do New Expressions Newspaper and a million other things. I’m all for human rights and plan on joining the Peace Corps after college. Sometimes my friends and family worry about my health because I’m way too involved. =^-^=

I’m a funny, joyful 17 year old senior in high school, I’m a student journalist, who plans to go to college to major in Broadcast journalism. I learned about YouthLab when Mindy Faber gave a presentation at the teen Magazine I work for called Say What, and after she showed me the work they had done in the past, I was hooked.

I am an overwhelmingly exuberant individual. Learning about new people and places are two of my greatest interests. I am truly blessed to be a part of this workshop because I have learned skills that go way beyond just technology. The Inner-city Muslim Action Network is the organization I work with and it is because of them that I got this great opportunity. Now, I will take the new techniques I’ve learned and share this great experience with all my fellow colleagues.

I am involved with Young Chicago Authors, Say What Magazine, as well as the Greater Chicago Ron Paul 2008 meet up group. As a hobby, I enjoy going to concerts, as well playing the bodhran, tin whistle, fife, harmonica, fiddle, guitar, piano, banjo, and mandolin. I am a member of Northside College Prep’s swim club, fencing club, and literary magazine. This fall will be my third year studying Chinese; for college I plan to study in the D.C. area and major in international business or international security.

YouthLAB Chicago consists of:

Marisol Becerra
Seemi Choudry
Kevin Eme
Spencer Fitzsimmons
Cortnee Griffith
Melissa Jordan
Erik Lobo
Lori Moody
Ameenah Muhammad
Sadia Nawab
Andy Quiroz
Zane Scheuerlein

Well- we are embarrassed to say that many Americans don’t know much about Barbados. That is why we made this. Hope you find it funny but less us know!

Whitney Young, the civil rights leader, is mentioned in the Gill Scott Heron poem, The Revolution Will Be Televised (see video texts).

Here are some of his quotes. It seems that the first one could be the motto of YouthLAB. What do you think?

“Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.”

“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.”

“You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That’s our role.”

“Black Power simply means: Look at me, I’m here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.”

Another quote that could be YouthLAB’s slogan comes from Milan Kundera.

“The struggle of humanity against power, is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”