The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) plays a key role at Out of Site, keeping us true to our mission to provide arts classes and opportunities to youth that are relevant and engaging. YAB helps keep Out of Site going on a day-to-day basis while providing valuable input on important decisions such as which instructors we hire and what classes we offer.
The Out of Site Youth Advisory Board is comprised of 8-10 high school students who are enrolled in Out of Site classes and are interested in helping Out of Site while further developing their leadership skills. Members meet monthly and their responsibilities include participating in the hiring of new faculty, assisting in the planning and facilitating of Out of Site events, acting as Out of Site representatives for recruitment and advocacy, and giving input on what classes we offer. Members are paid a stipend for each 6-month term on the YAB.
SPRING 2012 YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Christian Duarte Zuñiga, Alumni Advisor
Christian is graduating from City Arts and Technology High School and will be attending City College in the fall of 2011. He is an aspiring artist, writer, politician, and philosopher. He has continuously been involved with Out of Site since the fall of 2007 and has been an active member of the Youth Advisory Board for several terms. He has also been involved with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Excelsior Action Group, as well as with many local artists, and has interned at Mamá Art Cafe. Though Christian is graduating, he will be continuing his involvement with Out of Site through a summer office internship funded by the California Lawyers for the Arts.
Jessica Ling
Jessica attends Balboa High School, class of 2013. She has taken Acting and Percussion at Out of Site and plans to continue being a part of Out of site for as long as she is able to. She has also worked with the Excelsior Action Group, and was accepted into the San Francisco Coro Center for Civic Leadership’s Exploring Leadership youth program this summer. She has been an invaluable member of the Youth Advisory Board since the fall of 2010.
Zoe Rudman
Zoe was born & raised in San Francisco, CA. She is currently a senior at Lowell High School. She has taken printmaking at Out of Site more times than she can count, and was the teaching assistant for several sessions. However, now she is exploring her interest in photography. She has been on the Youth Advisory Board for more than a year and is also an intern at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. In addition, she is involved with BBYO (a Jewish youth group) and an AP Art History class at the de Young Museum. She enjoys reading, cooking and tap dancing.
Harry Glenn-Finer
Harry was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He currently attends Lick-Wilmerding High School as a junior. This is his first year on the Youth Advisory Board and he is currently taking the Percussion class with Alfie and Mark. He is currently an intern at the Exploratorium. In his free time, Harry enjoys playing soccer, running track, rock-climbing and playing the drums.
Nick Held
Nick started going to Out of Site classes around the end of his 9th grade year. He was motivated to go because a lot of his friends who went to his school, Metropolitan Arts & Tech were taking the classes. His mom found out he could get school credit for it so she wanted him to do it as well. Architecture was the first class he took and he really enjoyed the class. It was interesting, had a lot of tools, and the location and food was really good. After Architecture, he saw all the other classes he could take and wanted to take but couldn’t take at school. He’s going into his senior year of high school and since the end of 9th grade has been taking Out of Site classes and worked for YAB.
Jessica Lavelle
Jessica Lavelle is a student at City Arts and Technology High School and has been taking classes at Out of Site ever since her freshman year. She has taken almost every class that Out of Site has to offer and hopes to continue to be involved with Out of Site for as long as she possibly can. Jessica also enjoys the performing arts and hopes to become a professional performer or a performing arts teacher someday in the future.
SPRING 2011 YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Christian Duarte Zuñiga
Christian is graduating from City Arts and Technology High School and will be attending City College in the fall of 2011. He is an aspiring artist, writer, politician, and philosopher. He has continuously been involved with Out of Site since the fall of 2007 and has been an active member of the Youth Advisory Board for several terms. He has also been involved with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Excelsior Action Group, as well as with many local artists, and has interned at Mamá Art Cafe. Though Christian is graduating, he will be continuing his involvement with Out of Site through a summer office internship funded by the California Lawyers for the Arts.
Jessica Ling
Jessica attends Balboa High School, class of 2013. She has taken Acting and Percussion at Out of Site and plans to continue being a part of Out of site for as long as she is able to. She has also worked with the Excelsior Action Group, and was accepted into the San Francisco Coro Center for Civic Leadership’s Exploring Leadership youth program this summer. She has been an invaluable member of the Youth Advisory Board since the fall of 2010.
Zoe Rudman
Zoe was born & raised in San Francisco, CA. She will be a senior at Lowell High School in the fall. She has taken printmaking at Out of Site more times than she can count, and has been the teaching assistant for several sessions. She has been on the Youth Advisory Board for several months and is also an intern at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. She enjoys reading, cooking and tap dancing.
Harry Glenn-Finer
Harry was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He currently attends Lick-Wilmerding High School as a junior. This is his first year on the Youth Advisory Board and he is currently taking the Percussion class with Alfie and Mark. He is currently an intern at the Exploratorium. In his free time, Harry enjoys playing soccer, running track, rock-climbing and playing the drums.
Nick Held
Nick started going to Out of Site classes around the end of his 9th grade year. He was motivated to go because a lot of his friends who went to his school, Metropolitan Arts & Tech were taking the classes. His mom found out he could get school credit for it so she wanted him to do it as well. Architecture was the first class he took and he really enjoyed the class. It was interesting, had a lot of tools, and the location and food was really good. After Architecture, he saw all the other classes he could take and wanted to take but couldn’t take at school. He’s going into his senior year of high school and since the end of 9th grade has been taking Out of Site classes and worked for YAB.
Nguyet (Mimi) Duong
Mimi is fifteen years old and a student at Balboa High School. Mimi has taken three sessions of Architecture and a Carnaval Build & Design class at Out of Site. She has also participated in two paid summer Architecture internships. She also stays busy with volunteering with the Excelsior Action Group and working on her school newspaper. Mimi also loves to eat. Food is her life – literally! Almost every time you see her, she will have some sort of food in her mouth, in her hand or in a bag. So don’t be surprised!
Maggie Lei
Maggie is a graduating high school student from Lowell, going to CCA this fall. She will also be attending the California State Summer School for the Arts, for which she was awarded a scholarship. She’s taken Out of Site classes the entirety of her senior year, and has been a part of YAB for the last semester. Both semesters, she has taken screen-printing, always attempting to print her drawings on t-shirts and missing the mark slightly. At least her posters look decent!
Maggie is pretty much “that guy”. That guy, that nerdy guy that reads geeky superhero comics. She plans to turn her nerdy obsessions into a job, though. There’s gotta be a market for cartoons about chainsaw massacres and spandex pants!