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Our Youth Advisory Board

About Our Youth Advisory Board

Local youth who work with CAH pose for picture

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

Community member gibes cooking demo as part of YAB Granny Project

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

ZION PITTMAN

President
Western High School

"When you let go and be free, happiness and peace will come."

MARQUE KNOX

Vice President
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School

"Your Faith should be stronger then your feelings"

NA'IM ADAMS

Edmonson Westside High School

TAYLOR CLINTON

Heartsmiles Mentor (Heartbeat)

YOUNG ELDER

Coppin State University

"Change a generation, beat the expectations."

JADA JOHNSON

Heartsmiles Mentor (Heartbeat)

"Action is the oxygen to your success."

SHELAH JOHNSON

Chowan University

"Dreams only come true when you capitalize on opportunities."

DONTE MATTHEWS

ConneXions A Community Based Arts School

"Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure."

KAMRI MOSES

Spelman College

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

LANAE WILLIAMS

Patapsco High School Center for the Arts

"True happiness comes from within."

MADISON WILLIAMS

Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School

"If you're broke you shouldn’t be busy and if you're busy you shouldn’t be broke."