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A short description of us you can copy, the address to write to, and where our figures come from.
A description you can copy
The Youth Civic Engagement Initiative (YCEI) is a student-run organization launched in Northern California in 2024. Its members read the local laws that shape the communities they come from, explain them in plain language, and work on the ones closest to home. By its own count YCEI has more than 100 members in 14 chapters, each one led by the students in it.
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Contact
Write to admin@youthcei.org. One address takes press questions, corrections, and anything about starting a chapter. Our leadership team is four students, named with their titles on our people page.
- Instagram: @youthcivicengagementinitiative
- TikTok: @youthcivicengagem
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Facts and figures
| Figure | What it counts | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | Chapters | Our own count, August 2026. |
| 100+ | Members | Our own count, published on our site in August 2026. |
| 8 | Public events since June 2024 | The eight events we have published, with the dates, places and speakers we published for each. All eight are on our events page. |
| 6 | Advisors | Four on our Board of Advisors and two Honorary Advisors, as we list them. The two Honorary Advisors are not board members, hold no governance role here, and cast no vote. Names on our people page. |
| 4 | Members of the leadership team | David Liu, Nico Gong, Sherry Chen and Ethan Chen, with the titles we give them on our people page. |
| 2 | Policy briefs | Our own count, August 2026. Both are in preparation and neither is published on our briefs page yet. |
| 12 | Members at the Leadership Training Camp, 1 to 5 July 2024 | Our own published line: “12 YCEI members participated in this camp.” |
| 20 | Members at the Seminar on Policy Advocacy Training, 7 to 8 September 2024 | Our own published line: “20 YCEI members participated in this seminar.” |
| 113 | Registrations for the Summer 2026 Conference, 24 July 2026 | Our own published line: “113 people signed up for this conference.” |
| $100,000 | Raised at the fundraiser of 10 December 2025 | Our own published line: “Raised over $100,000 for a new bus to be sent to the farms in Salinas, California.” The bus is run by ALAS at alasdreams.com. |
| 2024 | The year we launched, in Northern California | Our own published line: “Launched at Northern California in 2024.” |
| SB 338 | The bill: the Virtual Health Hub for Rural Communities Pilot Program | Approved by the Governor on 3 October 2025 and chaptered the same day as Chapter 311, Statutes of 2025. Full text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. What our members did is on our legislation page. |
| 38 to 0, 80 to 0, 40 to 0 | The floor and concurrence votes on SB 338 | Senate 29 May 2025, Assembly 9 September 2025, concurrence 10 September 2025. Every recorded vote on the bill was unanimous. Bill history at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. |
| 2 | Rural communities the pilot is to place a hub in, once its funding conditions are met | Section 150704(b) of the Health and Safety Code, added by the bill: grant recipients “shall deploy virtual health hubs in two rural communities based on farmworker population and access to health care.” The department picks them from grant applications, and the statute designates no city or county as a site. |
| 120 | The Farmworker Health Equity Express, weekly, in the words of the senator’s office | The Office of Senator Josh Becker, 11 March 2025: “This program serves approximately 120 people per week by rotating among farms in the afternoons and evenings when workers are most available.” The service is run by ALAS and Life Science Cares Bay Area. The release does not say whether the figure counts individuals or repeat arrivals. |
| 13 | Senator Josh Becker’s Senate district | sd13.senate.ca.gov: District 13 covers most of San Mateo County and the northern part of Santa Clara County. |
| 15 and 1,000 | Students on the outreach team, and households it reached, on a 2024 congressional campaign in California’s 16th district | Our founder’s own record of the 2024 campaign. The three placements are on our offices page. |