SYPP is a youth run organization staffed by the following excellent staff members.

Sahar Romani

- NEW Co-Director

Sahar Romani is riveted by teenagers, words/metaphors, Hindi film songs, coffee, and critical pedagogy.  She is honored and excited to join SYPP as Co-Director and an adult ally with the commitment to learn from young people and support their ideas and actions towards changing the world around them.  

For over five years, Sahar worked with urban youth in Kolkata, India on creative and critical literacy as a popular educator and teaching-artist. In 2003, she founded a creative writing program for urban youth called Kalam: Margins Write, where she created and facilitated workshops on critically-conscious story-telling and creative writing with young people living in marginalized neighborhoods. Along with her work in India, Sahar has been doing community organizing in Seattle’s local Muslim and South Asian communities around issues of gender justice, homophobia and Islamophobia.

Sahar is a Seattle-native and she’s is excited to work with a creative, social justice organization like SYPP where youth voices shape youth work.

Jeremy Louzao

- Co-Director

Jeremy is 28 years old, and has now officially spent half his life working passionately on issues of social justice and youth empowerment!

Jeremy first became politically active at 14, and he very quickly felt called to make his path alongside the marching steps of today's social justice movements.  His journey has been a long chain of events and relationships that have led him from farmworker solidarity organizing to the 1999 WTO protests; from a radical community center in Bellingham to organizing with other white men against sexist and racist violence; and from five years of youth empowerment work at Tyee High School, in Seatac, WA, to his current job at SYPP!

When Jeremy isn't being inspired and challenged by his work with SYPP youth, he loves playing board games (he's a boardgame geek!), reading history books, blogging, taking walks, and learning how to cook new dishes.