Name: Natalie Erb
Fundraising Chair and College Math Literacy Worker at Huron High School
Age: 20
Hometown: Poway, CA
High School: Poway High School
Current education: University of Michigan
How I found out about YPP: I got involved with YPP through the Soc 389 Project Community course at the University of Michigan.  I fell in love with the work and the staff and was lucky enough to be hired on as staff the following semester to continue working at Lincoln High School.        
My favorite part of YPP: My favorite part of YPP is watching students discover the talents, creativity and possibility they never dreamed they had.  I have been blessed to watch a great many students grow into wonderful young leaders and mentors and into passionate people that I know will have a powerful and positive impact in their communities and beyond.
My favorite book: The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
My favorite movie: Remember the Titans
My favorite quotes: "Dance like no one is watching, Live like you've never been hurt, Sing like there's no body listening and live like it's heaven on earth." - William W. Purkey
My favorite songs:  I Don't Want to Wait - Paula Cole, Get You In - Better Than Ezra, Breathe - Michelle Branch

Name: Angela A.
Organizer
Age: 21
Hometown: West Bloomfield, MI        
High School: West Bloomfield High School
Current education: University of Michigan
How I found out about YPP: I joined YPP because I believe in it's mission to mentor and help to guide younger students to their full human potential. I was attracted to this organization because I appreciated, agreed with and wanted to help nurture students into the future leaders, organizers and activists in the world.
My favorite part of YPP: My favorite part of YPP is the interactions with students and the connections and relationships the can build and turn into mentoring relationships.   
My favorite book: The Pact by Jodi Piccoult
My favorite movie: Law Abiding Citizen
My favorite quotes: "Break-up with your doubts, cheat on your fears & make love to your dreams."        
My favorite songs: To Zion - Lauryn Hill, Last Night - Az Yet, Journey to the Past - Aaliyah

Name: Khalid Sarsour
College Math Literacy Worker at Lincoln High School, former Math Literacy Worker
Age: 18
Hometown: Ypsilanti, MI        
High School: Lincoln Senior High School
Current education: University of Michigan     
Why I Joined YPP: To make a change with the youth.
My favorite part of YPP: Being a leader        
My favorite book: The Kite Runner
My favorite movie: Carlito's Way
My favorite quotes: "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it" 

Name: Jim Dwyer
College Math Literacy Worker for the Algebra Project Cohort at Ypsilanti High School
Age: 23
Hometown: Farmington, MI
High School: Farmington High School
Current education: University of Michigan, School of Education
Why I Joined YPP: To make a change with the youth.
My favorite book: 1984 by George Orwell
My favorite movie: Lord of the Rings trilogy
My favorite quotes: "Be the change you want to see in the world."  -Gandhi

Name: Qutresha Houston
College Math Literacy Worker at Huron High School
Age: 22
Hometown: Lansing, MI
High School: Huron High School
Current education: Washtenaw Community College
Why I Joined YPP: When I found out what YPP did, and that I could possibly have the opportunity to join I was excited.  I love working with youth, and I love that we work on not only work on math skills but social justice as well. When I found out that it was not just math, but we put together games and gave the high school students leadership roles to teach middle school students was amazing to me.  To make a change is to get involved, and we are making that happen in so many ways. 
My favorite part of YPP: My Favorite Part about YPP is the interaction with the students.  To know that we are giving them the opportunity to be the teacher and not just the student is a great feeling. 
My favorite book: A Child Called It by Dave Peltzer
My favorite movie: A Beautiful Mind
My favorite quotes: "Tell me, don't you think it's a shame?
When someone can put a quarter in a video game
But when a homeless person approaches you on the street
You can't treat him the same"
My favorite songs: Lyfe Jennings - Must be nice, India Arie - Good Man, Tamia – Almost

Name: Jenny Froomkin
College Math Literacy Worker at Wayne-Memorial High School
Age: 23
Hometown: Westland, MI
High School: John Glenn
Current education: Eastern Michigan University
Why I joined YPP: I found out about YPP last year when I was working for the GEAR UP and Bright Futures programs at Wayne Memorial High School.
My favorite part of YPP: Spending time with students and building strong relationships with them.
My favorite book: The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling and Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
My favorite quotes: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" – Confucius

Name: E. Jacob Tanner
Trainer and Instructor
Age: 21
Hometown: Kalamazoo, MI
High School:  Loy Norrix High School
Current education: University of Michigan
How I found out about YPP: My sister - Rachael Tanner, and Andrea Ridgard
My favorite part of YPP:  League Day
My favorite book: Invisible Man, The Sneetches, The Color of Water,
My favorite quotes: "If you don't know where you're going, any path will take you there"
My favorite songs: Kick, Push - Lupe Fiasco, One Love - Nas,  Nuthin but a G Than -  Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg

Name: Morghan M. Williams
Program Coordinator and Instructor
Age: 25
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
High School: Shaker Heights High School
Current education: Eastern Michigan University Graduate School
How I found out about YPP: through the Willow Run Gear UP site coordinator, Kelli Hatfeild
My favorite part of YPP: the community involvement piece (ex community kick off, family game nights, community discussions, etc)
My favorite book: too many to have a favorite ;)
My favorite quote: “Don't argue with fools because people from a distance can't tell the difference” –Proverbs
My favorite song: The point of it all - Anthony Hamilton, Run till I finish - Smokie Norfolk

Name: Zoe Miller
College Math Literacy Worker at Lincoln High School
Age: 20
Hometown: Pleasant Ridge, MI
High School: The Roeper School
Current education: University of Michigan
How I found out about YPP: from a professor (Stephen Ward)
My favorite part of YPP: the students and cool new math
My favorite book: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
My favorite quotes: "Learn to Live, Live to Learn" and "Learn to do by doing" (engraved on my elementary school)   
My favorite song: How Come You Don't Call Me - Alicia Keys

Name:  Charles “Charlie” Stanley
College Math Literacy Worker at Wayne-Memorial High School
Age:  28
Hometown: Garden City, MI
High School:     Garden City High Scholl
College education: Eastern Michigan University
How I found out about YPP:  Wayne Memorial Bright Futures and Gear Up directors
My favorite part of YPP:   The team building and student interactions
My favorite books:  Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Even Cowgirls get the blues by Tom Robbins
My favorite quotes:   “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -Kahlil Gibran
“Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through the slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thought and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got: a Diploma” - The Wizard of Oz
My favorite songs: Gold to Me- Ben Harper, Adrian- Mason Jennings, The district sleeps alone tonight- Postal Service, Fake Plastic trees- Radio Head, Afraid not scared- Ryan Adams, Bring it on home to me- Sam Cooke, As- Stevie Wonder

Name: Melanie Anne Williams
College Math Literacy Worker at Ypsilanti High School
Age: 23
Hometown: Cleveland, Oh
High School: Shaker Heights High School
Current education: Washtenaw Community College
How I found out about YPP:  My sister Morghan Williams said I should come to a Community Kick Off, so I did.
My favorite part of YPP:  Interacting with the kids. Being able to learn as much from them as they can learn from me.
My favorite quotes: “Your struggles in life are what help appreciate all things.” “Work wouldn't be called work if it wasn't hard.”
“Do onto others as you want other to do onto to you.”
My favorite songs: ANYTHING BEYONCE!!!!!!!!

Name: Alexandra Tracy
Michigan Program Director
Age: 22
Hometown: Lake Orion, MI
High School: Lake Orion High School
Higher education: University of Michigan
How I found out about YPP: My best friend got me hooked because of work in Detroit, and most of all the idea of social change. I started out at César Chávez Academy High School in Southwest Detroit.        
My favorite part of YPP: My favorite part of YPP is the diversity of people that come together and share a common goal: to help students succeed in life. The idea of connecting with others in the community and spreading the word that math knowledge, or the want/need/right to education, is so important. It is the key to success for all, not only in a career, but in life.        
My favorite book: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, and MANY more
My favorite quote: “Success never rests. On your worst days, be good. On your best days, be great. And on every other day, get better.” -Carmen Mariano , "Unity in diversity; many, yet one"
My favorite songs: Bailala – Juanes, Sunshowers - M.I.A., La Rebelión - Joe Arroyo