NC Asian American Together's Youth Leadership Institute brings together Asian American high-school-aged young people to explore their leadership and advocacy skills, attend educational workshops and professional development, and connect to like-minded youth across NC. This year’s theme, “‘Bending Towards Justice’: Mastering the Elements of Change,” aimed to equip young leaders and activists with the knowledge and tools for transformative change using different tactics and broad-based community-building. In the workshop "Copy, Cut, and Paste Revolution: A Zine-Making Workshop," attendees learned about the long history of revolutionary counterculture zines and the importance of zines to scream, shout, and feel what it means to be Asian in the diaspora. The workshop was facilitated and zine was created by Shania Khoo.
