Charlotte Yeung
Charlotte Yeung is an author, youth poet laureate, and was a Civil Society Observer to the second meeting of States parties to the Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. She was the founder and instructor of a poetry course for women and girls in Afghanistan.
She has researched nuclear education in America and Japan, mis/disinformation, and tech policy. As a US attendee for the 2022 Hiroshima-ICAN Academy, she went to Hiroshima where she discussed nuclear policy with the governor and mayor of Hiroshima and met with survivors of the atomic bomb.
Her award-winning art and writing are published on multiple platforms from the New York Times to Carnegie Hall. Her first multilingual poem will be sent to the Moon in 2024 as part of the Lunar Codex.
Her children's book, Isabelle and the Magic Bird, was an Amazon #1 New Release. She was the 2022 Indiana Youth Poet Laureate and the 2023 Midwest Youth Poet Laureate.
As a Frederick Douglass Global Fellow, she was invited by the Government of Ireland to learn about apartheid and the Troubles from Mpho Tutu in South Africa and Professor Christine Kinealy in Ireland. She is currently an exchange student at Waseda University, Japan. She is a junior majoring in political science at Purdue University, United States of America.