Our Youth Advisory Board
About Our Youth Advisory Board
The Center for Adolescent Health is fortunate to have a talented, insightful, and energized Youth Advisory Board (YAB) to guide our work.
The YAB meets twice monthly to provide feedback on our mission and research.
YAB Projects
YAB members run their own exciting projects in the Baltimore community.
For example, YAB members launched the award-winning Granny Project in 2019, which was created as an innovative and fun way to address food insecurity.
Originally designed to be an in-person cooking class, the project went online due to the Covid-19 epidemic. During the online sessions, a local “granny” demonstrates how to cook a meal using ingredients provided by our team. The participants included local families who received ingredients packages to cook at home.
Since developing the program, our amazing partner, CASA, has joined us to provide sessions to hispanic immigrant communities.
Meet Our Youth Advisors
Don McClain
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
"To be or not to be... Not!" - Beyoncé
Zion Pittman
Western High School
"When you let go and be free, happiness and peace will come."
Jada Johnson
"Action is the oxygen to your success."
Kamri Moses
"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."
Myth (Shaine) McClain-Wees
"No one knows yourself better than you"
Vera Enwerem
"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." - B.B King
Kaele Channel Queen
"The truth will set you free, but first it will upset you!"
Gregory J. Simmons
"For the youth, by the youth."
Raquel Baraka
“Anything that ain’t growing is dead, so we best be changing” - Lauryn Hill
Roman (Aaris) Wharton
“If it won’t matter in five years, don’t spend more than five minutes on it”