Sadie Jackson is a youth ambassador for Poetry4Progress. She attends Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island. In January, she was named the Deputy Youth Poetry Ambassador of RI. In her spare time, she loves drawing portraits, photographing nearly everything around her, and falling into the collections of Pablo Neruda and Mary Oliver. Her own poems are primarily narrative—exploring a range of interpersonal relationships within our ever-evolving world.

Harmony Hopwood is a New Rochelle High school student, passionate poet and the Youth Poet Laureate of Westchester County. Hopwood’s passion in poetry and literature has lived strong since her childhood. She enjoys nothing more than using her voice through poetry, she feels it makes her powerful. Hopwood has strong ties to her Mexican and African American heritage and often pulls from that heritage in her poetry, giving her that platform to explore language, literature and activism. The idea of letting people into the Innermost parts of her brain, her ideas about feminism, culture and many other current issues makes poetry a resource for power.  She always had a visceral desire to be phenomenal, poetry makes me feel like she is getting closer to who she needs to be.She believes that literature and poetry can help the youth feel powerful in their voice as it has done for her. She is vice president of the poetry club at her school, a member of NAACP youth council, a NRCA youth advisory board member and a regional ACT-SO gold medalist.

Audrey Wu is a high school student from Cambridge, Massachusetts. For Audrey, writing serves as a coping mechanism and she focuses on writing poetry to heal. In addition to editing for a variety of literary magazines, she has attended the Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop, Iowa Young Writers Studio, Grubstreet’s Young Adult Writer’s program, and Northwestern Creative Writing for Talent Development among others. Outside of writing, Audrey enjoys good music, comfort food, and looking for the silver linings in life.

Yamini Jain is a youth ambassador for Poetry4Progress.  She is a senior at Washington High School (Fremont, CA). She has been writing poetry since she was a freshman, and she is an inaugural Youth Poet Laureate for Alameda County (2022-23). She has also competed in slam poetry and was a Finalist for the Youth Speaks Bay Area Teen Poetry Slam (2022&2023). Outside of writing, she loves playing sports and experimenting in the kitchen!

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Jackie Olano is an editor at Poetry4Progress. She is also the captain of her high school's Slam poetry team. This is her second year serving as her grade's elected student representative at Larchmont Charter High school. She is a member of her school's debate team as well as part of the school wide Site council and leadership.

Asa Miller is a youth ambassador for Poetry4Progress. He is first the first Youth Poet Laureate of Greenburgh, New York, and a junior at Edgemont Jr./Sr. High School in Scarsdale. Asa plays lacrosse for Edgemont’s varsity team, the club team True Lacrosse Westchester, and Israel’s national U18 team. He is an award-winning classical pianist who has performed at several international venues. An experienced scuba diver, Asa founded Edgemont’s marine biology club. His short documentary about helping to restore coral reefs in Cuba has screened at dozens of film festivals around the world..