Bio
Amy Nam is a 17-year-old from Toronto, Ontario with a deep passion for educational activism, storytelling and mental health. As the co-founder and executive director of The Reclamation Project, she strives to empower individuals from marginalized backgrounds and help people challenge their explicit and implicit biases through the organization’s publication of The Radical Magazine and #ItStartsWithYOUth campaign. As a student, Amy is also interested in advocating for stronger mental health support within schools. Through her journalism work with various publications and media outlets, she hopes to promote student voices in the creation of mental health support systems and contribute to a more equitable, humanizing approach to education.