Huiwen is 17 and a junior at BHSEC in NYC. She is passionate about the intersection of art and activism and founded the organization to inspire other minority youth to be more socially and politically engaged. She also works for art and education equity non-profits. In her spare time, you can find her drawing, painting, and learning how to code.

Anju is 17 and a junior at Bard High School Early College Manhattan. She is passionate about social and environmental justice. In her free time, she enjoys reading and doing robotics.

Theo Brandt is a junior at Bard High School Early College, Manhattan. He produces research-based art and writing for the magazine. Artistically, he is passionate about pushing conceptual boundaries, which he believes is central to Detester's mission. His hobbies and interests include philosophy and thrift shopping.

Karen Choi is a 16-year-old current junior at SITHS in NYC. She is passionate about advocating for women’s equality, ocean awareness, and the environment. She hopes that this project will bring light to these topics in hope for change. She spends her free time painting, drawing, and designing. She is also currently an architecture intern and hopes to pursue that in the future

Ivy is a junior attending Stuyvesant High School in NYC. She is passionate about advocating for social justice issues such as Black Lives Matter and promoting youth activism. During her free time, she indulges in drawing, talking to friends, and watching anime.

Dorothy is a rising junior at Brooklyn Technical High School in NYC. She is passionate about raising awareness on the environment and societal inequalities. You can find her baking or spending time with her friends.

Anshika is a 16-year-old highschooler from South Brunswick, NJ. She loves the mission to stand for youth activism and looks forward to spreading awareness about important political issues to the youth. She spends her free time watching netflix, dancing, singing, performing, spending time with friends and family or reading.

Crystal is a senior at a New York City High School. She is an advocate for sustainability, fighting against world hunger, and the innovation of technology to improve people's quality of life. In her free time shes likes to code websites, play virtual escape room games, and binge watch Tiny House videos.

Mahi is a Plant Sciences undergrad from University of Delhi, India. She is a passionate advocate for promoting the rights of women and youth. In her free time she can be seen reading, painting or learning Greek and Latin.

Sophie is a grade 11 student from Oakville, Canada. As a Chinese-Canadian, she hopes to shed light on issues in BIPOC communities and help others embrace their cultures. In her free time, you can find Sophie playing tennis, reading, or binging through a good show.

Chloe is a sophomore from the Washington, D.C. area. She's a passionate advocate for mental health and justice for all. In her free time, you can find her listening to the latest songs while reading a good book!

Kristy is 17 and attends SITHS. She lives in Brooklyn, NYC. She is passionate about climate change and the Black Lives Matter movement. In her free time, she loves to draw, read, and longboard.

Ashleigh Vogel is a college student at the University of Pittsburgh studying Biochemistry and Chinese. She enjoys researching about the enviroment and specifically the sociopolitical aspect that is involved in saving the enviroment. Being a Chinese adoptee, she is also actively involved in bringing Asian problems and opression to light. In her free time, she works and volunteers at various animal shelters along with learning various languages.

Mary Angelic Balderas, A 19-year-old and senior high school graduate of multimedia arts at Iacademy. Currently studying the college course of Multimedia Arts at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts. She resides at Antipolo City in the country of the Philippines. She is eager to enlighten and make others aware of the matters that are happening around the globe through the use of art and illustration. Mary is a young ambitious and passionately driven gal who learns at her own pace. After she has done her time after class, she likes to take the time on doing freelance and creating more craft. Other than that, She likes to play badminton and do tons of cycling!

Olivia is 16 and a rising high school senior from New York City. Disturbed by contemporary society's flaws, she grows passionate about minimizing the gap in ethnic privilege and helping to create a proper standard for human equality. In her free time, Olivia can be found drawing, practicing calligraphy, editing videos, and playing video games! Some of her aspirations include pursuing the STEM field and confronting socio-political issues in order to enact change.

Suzanna is a seventeen-year-old, grade eleven student from Vancouver, Canada. She enjoys producing literary and artistic works for a cause she is passionate about - spreading awareness and shattering the stigma around mental health conditions. Some of her hobbies include music - both performing and arranging, visual arts - mostly landscape sketches and photography, and writing of all literary genres.

Newton "Salem" Brophy is a 25-year-old Rhode Islander living in the Tampa Bay area. Sé is particularly passionate about gender, mental health, spirituality, religion, labor rights, and freedom from policing both domestically and overseas. Newton's hobbies include playing with power tools, pondering kitty cats, and winning staring contests with men in public restrooms.

Lillian is a 15 year old rising junior in highschool who lives in Los Angeles, CA.She is extremely passionate about breaking the stigma around mental illnesses and disorders, as well as raising awareness for social injustices that she feels deserves an elevated platform in the media.In her free time, Lillian loves to paint, volunteer, play soccer, and ultimately try to inspire the people around her.

Eliet is a 16 year old rising Year 2 from NYC who attends Bard High School Early College.She is passionate about animals, the environment, LGBTQ+ rights, and creating safe spaces for young girls in the gymnastics community. She spends her free time experimenting with vegan recipes, coaching gymnastics, hanging with her dogs, and trying her best to educate herself about current events!

Harvi is a 16-year-old, grade 12 student from Oakville, Ontario. She is passionate about issues like abortion rights, workplace discrimination, combating homelessness, and political accountability. She spends her free time being angry about discrimination around the world and the mistreatment of people. She is a bharatanatyam dancer and is president of CEDO Foundation.

Anna is a junior from Irvine. She is passionate about journalism and art. In her free time, she enjoys drawing, Taekwondo, and baking.

Madhumita is a 17 year old rising senior at Eastlake High School, based in Sammamish, Washington. She is passionate about the Model Minority myth and how that has been used to enforce the systematic oppression of the African American community and how the Asian community can use its privilege to tackle the problem at its root. In her free time, she likes to read, dance, paint, and play video games.

Chantal is a university student from the South of England who spends her time in Northern England for her studies. She is a writer who tries to explore every aspect of writing as much as she can, ranging from poetry to opinionated articles. she is passionate about literature that can bring a change to the world and push boundaries to do so. She can either be found in the coffee shop work ing with her university friends and filling her coffee addiction. If not, she can be found coming up with ideas for her blog.

Jamie is a Bay Area native and a rising sophomore at a boarding high school on the East Coast. She enjoys sharing about issues that are important to her— educating others and constantly learning from them too. When she’s not writing articles, you can find her drawing or watching movies.

Lindsay is a third-year Bachelor of Arts student at the University of Melbourne, where she currently resides, double majoring in history and Asian studies. She is passionate about elevating marginalized voices. In her free time, she loves to drink bubble tea, watch films from around the world and critique them, and indulge in anime, K-drama and K-pop.

Malya is 17 years old and attends LaGuardia High School in New York City. She is very interested in climate change and LGBTQ+ issues. In her free time, she enjoys reading, watching cartoons, and other indoor activities.

Vasco is a 16-year-old rising junior at Indiana University High School. He is passionate about social and political issues. He wants to educate others about racism, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental justice, feminism, and immigration. In his free time, he reads, draws, writes, and learns saxophone.

Danielle is a 16 year old rising high school junior from Sacramento, California. She is passionate about educating others on all that goes on as well as engaging in the community. In her free time, Danielle enjoys talking to her friends, working out, and baking.

My name is Mary and I’m currently a sophomore in high school. I’m 15 and I live in California! Topics that I’m really passionate are mainly politics, current events and medicine. These things really meaningful to me because I think it’s important to talk about these current events that are affecting our society and try to bring awareness about them. Mary’s hobbies include dancing, reading, writing, and practicing the guitar.

Roxanne (yes like the song, she doesn’t want to talk about it😤) is a rising sophomore living in Princeton, New Jersey. She is passionate about advocating for human rights and wants to be a part of something that would encourage her generation to be more socially active and caring towards minorities and the injustices they face in society. She thinks it is very important that we start educating ourselves now. Over quarantine she has been baking, painting, and sewing masks for first responders. In her free time she also enjoys listening to music, shopping, watching shows/movies, and hanging out with her friends.

Asma is a rising junior from the UK. She hopes to shed light on issues that we need to spread awareness about. She also enjoys playing badminton and photography.

Joyce is a grade 12 student attending Bloor Collegiate Institute located in Toronto, Ontario. She is passionate about mental health and environmental injustice, hoping to use her platform to spread awareness to both matters alongside other social justice topics in the world. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and listening to podcasts.

Danica Seto is a high school freshman from Massachusetts. She has an interest in learning about and educating others on social justice issues, politics, and activism. Writing is something she loves doing to start conversations on important topics and engage in actively seeking change. Danica also participates in the Community Problem Solving program and loves spending her free time reading.

Angela is in 12th Grade at Cawthra Park Secondary School, Mississauga. She enjoys writing short stories and about social issues. Her hobbies and interests are writing, singing, and art. She likes to spend her time writing, reading and googling Elon Musk memes.

Abbas is a 18 year old writer from Sri Lanka. While a student of science, he also loves history, technology and the power of the written word. His goal is to help people keep an open mind when making decisons, to ensure the best outcome possible. He loves chemistry, chocolate and cricket and you will always find him with a book in hand.

Polina is a sophomore college student in San Antonio, Texas. She is passionate about all things political science, anything from urban planning in correlation to social inequality to voter suppression and gerrymandering. In her free time, Polina enjoys digital drawing and listening to podcasts.

Sanskriti is a sophomore student at Wilson College in Mumbai. She is passionate about advocating for environmental injustice and social-political issues. She believes that its time for us to start educating ourselves and start questioning what’s happening around in otter to enact change. She enjoys reading, traveling, and meeting new people.

Ify Chidi is a junior in high school in the Bay Area. She cares heavily about youth tobacco advocacy and public health. She spends her free time learning languages and playing tennis.

Grace is a 16-year old high school junior from Seattle, Washington. She is passionate about destigmatizing mental illnesses and advocating for gender equality. Grace's interests include art, writing, reading, and watching Criminal Minds.

Michaela Capulong, 17, is a junior in high school, living in Huntington Beach, California. She has a penchant for writing, challenging authority, and dismantling systems of oppression. Michaela enjoys dancing, reading, and watching films. She can usually be found drinking something caffeinated.

Kennedi is a 20 year old from Los Alamitos, California studying Sociology at Cal State Fullerton. Her major in Sociology sprouted from her interest in social issues and wanting to be a better ally to people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Her hobbies include plant-shopping, reading, painting, and watching Parks and Recreation even though she's already watched the entire series 7 times.

Storm Butti is a sophomore at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, currently studying architecture. She wants to explore the relationship between people and the spaces they occupy to help lead a future that is welcoming and equitable for everyone. She loves to go on long walks when it rains and listens to too much emo music.

El is 16 and a junior at New Smyrna Beach High School in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She is passionate about women empowerment and political injustice in America. In El's free time, you can find her checking out the latest fashion trends or reading.

River is a 15 year old sophomore at Cheltenham High School, from Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. She is passionate about all things learning and advocacy; from Black Lives Matter to protecting the Amazon rainforest, she is all it. In her free time, she enjoys listening to K-Pop and Spanish hits, reading, and rewatching Atypical. She is incredible excited to join fellow BIPOC youth in advocating for sociopolitical issues.

Maya Henry(she/her) is a high school freshman living in Los Angeles, California. She is an activist, happy crier, cherry tomato enthusiast, and opinionated Cancer who changes her opinion on the Oxford Comma monthly.

Rohan Subramaniam is 16 years old, and a high school junior from Greenwich, Connecticut. He's passionate about being a part of modern journalism, and finding a voice for himself and his peers; he is especially interested in the role poetry can play in journalism and how it can change society. He is also a musician, and plays the electric bass and viola; as well, he loves to cook and explore different cultures through food in his free time.

Jamee Ganal is a 16 year old junior, attending Chaparral High School located in California. She is passionate about issues such as environmental racism, xenophobia, and injustice towards the black community. She often makes art about things that make her mad, but also spends her free time playing music or meditating.

Rachel is 15 and currently in high school, she lives in Brussels, Belgium. Rachel is passionate about bringing people together and being as inclusive as possible. In her free time, she enjoys drawing and sketching, traditionally and digitally, and when she’s not doing that, she plays her piano and her guitar.

Celine Yang is a high school freshman from Jakarta, Indonesia. She's passionate about raising awareness on topics such as gender-inequality and environmental justice. She likes to spend her free time reading about philosophy, painting and playing the piano.

Kareena is a sophomore at Ahmedabad University in India. She is passionate about advocating for bridging the Gender Gap at Workplace and Climate Justice. In her spare time, she enjoys trying new art forms, reading books and poetry.

Mrinal is a 17 year old high school senior from Illinois. She is passionate about LGBT+ rights, racial equality, and breaking the stigma around mental health issues. In her free time, she enjoys drawing, baking, and watching movies.

Bestia is currently a first year PPE student at the University of Warwick. She is determined to make a difference in the lives of others through tackling one issue at a time. She spends most of her leisure time meeting her friends, listening to music, and reading books.

Eeman is 16 and a Y11 student at GEMS Cambridge International in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is passionate about activism and the implementation of social justice across the world. Her goal is to become more socially and politically engaged with the issues faced by marginalised peoples. In her free time, you can find her writing poems, short stories and novels; reading; and watching documentaries for fun. Her main goal though is to try to make the world better, even if it is one tiny step at a time.

Aliza Shahab is a 17 year old junior at Dublin High School, in Dublin, California! She's passionate about BIPOC storytelling, creative representation in media, and uplifting youth voices in order to do so. Aliza loves to read and, watch movies, and listen to music, so recommendations are always welcome!

Sophia is a sophomore at IBSH, a bilingual school in Hsinchu, Taiwan! She’s passionate with the inner workings of systematic racism and how it impacts the BIPOC community on multiple levels, and also is invested in minority representation in media and pop culture. In her spare time, she loves watching tiktoks, rapping any line of Nicki Minaj, debating, playing volleyball, and writing/reading literature. Sophia is super pumped to be the host of Déteste This! and is ready to dive into many different topics.

Gabby Schmitt is a graduate of Carthage College with a major in Studio Art and Geosciecne and she is currently studying graphic design at University of Minnesota Duluth while living in Wisonsin, United States. She is passionate about saving the envionment, gay rights, and women's rights. Currently Gabby likes to spend time working in her sketchbook and go hiking with her boyfriend.

Kenny is currently a junior at a NYC high school. His Shinto background has sparked his fondness for nature, pushing him to advocate for environmental justice. He loves drawing manga in his free time, using art as a way to interweave the lives of others with his emotions.

Fikayo is an undergrad student attending Acadia University located in the small town of Wolfville, (NS Canada).. She is 19 years old and in her third year of studying Political Science and Philosophy. Fikayo is very interested in discussing and devising ways to tackle social issues, both common and often overlooked ones that are accepted for the norm. She spends her free time (when university life allows for that) engaging in debates with friends, reading books by authors like Dan Brown, Chimamanda. Adichie, Feminista Jones and more. Fikayo also likes to go on walks, people watch and loves to demystify strangers by having spontaneous conversations. She is an empath, takes life as it comes and tries to learn and unlearn everyday.

Ellie is a first year university student, studying management, from Toronto, Canada. She is passionate about social justice issues and breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health. She loves travelling and discovering new food places around the city!

Chloe is currently a 16 year old junior at the Bronx High School of Science in NYC. She is passionate about writing, educational equality, and AAPI rights. In her free time, she enjoys curating playlists, talking with her friends, and playing video games.

Lucy is a sophomore high school student in NYC. She is a passionate advocate for the fair justice system and bringing awareness to social inequality issues. She hates how biased the justice system is and how people can get away with crimes. In her free time, she likes to do freelance work, create eCommerce websites, reading the news, and trying out different foods in NYC. She loves technology.

Ashleigh Vogel is a college student at the University of Pittsburgh studying Biochemistry and Chinese. She enjoys researching about the enviroment and specifically the sociopolitical aspect that is involved in saving the enviroment. Being a Chinese adoptee, she is also actively involved in bringing Asian problems and opression to light. In her free time, she works and volunteers at various animal shelters along with learning various languages.