Yunus Chang
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My favorite part about IYTP are the students. As much as we are here to help and tutor them, they also impart a fair amount of knowledge to us. By sharing experiences, we connect with the students and are able to gain a new perspective that otherwise would not have been available to us.
I'm most excited for everything! We have so many new sites and projects planned for the year. If everything goes well, IYTP may be able to aggressively expand in the year to come. I hope to bring a little bit of direction to IYTP with my position. We have such a talented and capable board and I would hate to waste their potential by not honing in and establishing consistency in key projects. Fun fact! My favorite fruit is longan. |
My favorite part of IYTP is the variety of projects and sites that we have at one time. There is a lot to choose from as a board member and volunteer and many different ways to make an impact on other’s lives. Working on these projects and sites with a group of awesome people just makes it that much better.
I am very excited about the newsletters we are working on with Link Outside and Al-Talib. They will contain Islamic educational materials, current events, personal stories, and art and will be sent out to Muslim inmates all around the country. I’m hoping that I can connect with and learn about some of these incarcerated Muslims through this project. As External Vice President I would love to grow the number of partnerships and connections that IYTP has with other organizations. There are many other amazing organizations both on and off campus that we can work with to increase the number of people that we can reach. Fun fact! I was born in the now infamous city of Wuhan, China. |
Samir Yousef
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Maryam Bacaloni
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My favorite part about IYTP would be supplying our service recipients with the resources they need to help them achieve their goals.
I’m most excited for rebranding IYTP while staying true to our mission. Being the internal vice president, I hope to shed light on how structural inadequacies and political failings deteriorate community conditions. Fun fact! I can play Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd on the guitar. |
My favorite part about IYTP is its mission; it's so different from all the other clubs and organizations I've volunteered with, which is what drew me into it in the first place.
I’m super excited to start volunteering at sites, even though they'll be virtual for Fall Quarter at least. I love helping others with anything related to college, whether it's making resumes, LinkedIn profiles, or navigating classes, and I'm looking forward to being able to help the students with all the tips and tricks I've learned from my experience starting at community college and ending up here at UCLA! As the Public Relations Director, I really want to focus on bringing the club out of the shadows! For the last couple of years we haven't had a social media presence, or pretty much any presence online except for Facebook, so I was super excited to be able to lead the committee to create this website, as well as work on the Instagram feed! Fun fact! I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do! |
Ayesha Durrani
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Farhan Muhammad
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My favorite part of IYTP is the halaqas about incarceration in Muslim communities and how their experience connects to a wider web of injustice against minorities were very interesting. I also love to learn about any current situations and how one can respond to them. After each discussion I always wished to learn more about the subject, as I felt empowered to try and change these wrongs in any way possible.
I am excited to attend site visits and spend one-on-one time with students to help gauge what level they are at, how to build upon their strengths and weaknesses, and how to help guide their next steps toward their particular career goal. Overall, this productive, individualized interaction excites me the most. With my position, I hope to detract as many logistical and financial concerns as possible from other members to help actualize and facilitate as many meaningful site visits, activities, and discussions to expand IYTP’s influence and advocate for the work that we perform. Fun fact! As a huge Geography fan, I know the capital of every country in the world. |
My favorite part about IYTP is the genuine opportunities it provides to juvenile youth, such as establishing a support system and encouraging them to pursue a higher education. With our educational resources and mentorship, these students are one step closer to getting the second chance at life they deserve. You are not just in IYTP, you are also contributing to the larger effort of dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline and learning about the discrepancies in our education system.
I am SO excited that we will finally be having official 18+ and 21+ sites this year. It is something we have been trying to establish for the past couple years, so it’s amazing to see our hard work come together and have a smooth start to the new year iA. We are also partnering with Al-Talib Newsmagazine to send out a quarterly newsletter to the inmates, which will contain reading material about religion, current events, positivity, and more! As programming director, I hope to organize meaningful events to raise awareness about the prison industrial complex and the school-to-prison pipeline. Whether it be partnering with other organizations or having engaging discussions, I am looking forward to finding creative ways we can help the incarcerated youth, virtual or not :) Fun fact! When I was younger, I lived in France for 6 months! |
Sabrina Fardeheb
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Al-Hassan Dajani
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My favorite part of IYTP is being given a chance to help aid individuals in having a second chance at taking a new direction in their life.
I am excited to hear the stories and personal motivation that our service recipients have to want to change the course of their lives. With my position, I hope to bring an ability to actively listen to the needs of our service recipients and implement changes to our program wherever need be to best fit those needs. Fun fact! I like eating raw jalapeños. |
My favorite part of IYTP is getting to work with students who are of a different demographic than myself whether that be through their background, racial/ethnic identity, age, etc. because I feel that the volunteers, me included, can learn a lot from the students and vice versa, and site always becomes a very eye-opening and rewarding experience.
For this upcoming year, I am most looking forward to expanding our horizons as a project; it's exciting to see us add on not only one but two, new sites as well as starting a newsletter/magazine and our website! I think it's all going to really come together soon and I'm really eager to see it all come to life. As a site coordinator, I obviously hope to establish and run a successful site but I also want to strengthen our site planning/curriculum internally as well so the following project boards can focus on improving and building on top of the foundation we're building this year, instead of having to restart every year. Fun fact! I boulder/rock climb. |
Hafsah Khan
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