CAIS is proud to share the spectacular news that SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has announced seventh grader Lottie N. as the city’s first ever AAPI Youth Changemaker Award winner. This honor recognizes Lottie for her distinct impact through community service. Upon learning of the announcement, eighth grade Chinese teacher Sisi Zheng, who is one of the faculty sponsors for Lottie’s CAIS club, shared, “Wonderful news and a well-deserved award!”
Lottie founded Creative Righters, a nonprofit dedicated to encouraging kids to write, make art, find their voices and share their stories with the world. (More than 60 of the young authors and artists are CAIS students.) In addition, she created the Candy, Crafts, and Community Club at CAIS, bringing over 100 CAIS kids together to make hundreds of care kits to benefit recovering kids at UCSF and CPMC. (See her article about the club in the Student Takeover edition of the Middle School Update.) She’s extending the effort into the summer, when she’ll be hosting a Candy Crafts & Community Club Event at SF Public Library’s Ortega Branch.
Lottie will be accepting the AAPI Youth Changemaker Award with a speech at the APA Heritage Awards being held this Thursday, May 1 from 5:00-7:30 p.m. at Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. This ceremony is among the first of 100+ events the City has lined up to celebrate Asian American Heritage Month.
Congratulations to Lottie for making the Kindness Firedragon especially proud and for being a great exemplar of the CAIS mission tenet to contribute to a better world.