Looking for Speakers for Your Youth Leadership Forum or other state youth events?
NYLN has a pool of young activists with disabilities who have experience organizing and leading their own YLFs. Below are just a few of our featured resource consultants.
Alan Chase has a passion for disability rights, advocacy, and education. He uses a variety of teaching techniques that appeal to the unique learning styles of each person. Through roleplay, discussion, real world examples, and group activities he can teach about disability law, emergency management, education, and advocacy. Participants will enjoy his excitment, knowledge, and dedication to teaching and presenting. Alan also has experience co-organizing the YLF in NC.
Aaron Baier brings with him an open and interactive opportunity for youth and young adults to become more self-determined. Aaron uses multi-media and a positive attitude to get his audience involved in a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to) leadership, self-advocacy, goal-setting, independent living, and disability awareness. Teamed with his guide dog, Maxie, Aaron brings awareness and understanding to a whole new level. Aaron has worked with Youth Power! to organize Youth Leadership Forums in NY.
Betsy served as a team leader for South Dakota’s YLF for one year, the Master of Ceremonies for four consecutive years thereafter, and a YLF staff person, speaker, or coordinator for five years after that. Betsy has served as a guest speaker for YLFs in North Dakota, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, and Missouri. Betsy also served for three consecutive years as an officer on the Association of Youth Leadership Forums. She specializes in team-building activities, goal-setting, self-determination, disability pride, and career development/professional preparedness.
Chelsea Tobin Paulson is from South Dakota. She loves to get her hands on with different issues pertaining the disability community, is an excellent pusher for the youth with disabilities to tap into their inner potential, mostly because they CAN, opposed to others in society thinking they can’t. Chelsea has experienced four years at South Dakota Youth Leadership Forum, and currently works with National Youth Leadership Network since October of 2007. She has served as National Association for the Deaf Miss Deaf America from 2006 to 2008. She also is a graduate of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with bachelor of arts degree in Deaf Education and Elementary Education.
Stacey “cripchick” Milbern is NYLN’s Community Outreach Director. She loves being a part of the youth arm of the Disability Rights Movement because she gets to be a potluck-hostin’ rabble-rousin’ youth organizer, digital-age media maker, and poet all at the same time. Stacey hails from North Carolina and calls the South home. If you are looking for someone who knows how to use hip hop, pop culture and storytelling to talk about power, advocacy, and activism in an accessible, people-power way— she’s your girl. Stacey is a member of the Disabled Young People’s Collective and co-organized the first ever Youth Leadership Forum in NC.
