Featuring Interview Guests, Teenagers, Juniors at Geffen Academy at UCLA, and Co-Founders of, Teens at the Door, (TATD), Hugo Chiasson and Chloe Berkowitz; and Performance Guest, Singer / Songwriter / Solo Musician from Japan Bringing the Joy of Music to Young Ones, Ryoji Inatsugi on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 762
Interview Guests: CHLOE BERKOWITZ and HUGO CHIASSON; and Performance Guest: RYOJI INATSUGI
HUGO CHIASSON
Hi, I’m Hugo Chiasson! I’m 17 and a senior at Geffen Academy at UCLA. In August 2021, I watched as the planes took off from the Kabul airport and could not help but feel like I had to do something to help all those people forced to leave their homeland, most especially the teenagers like me who would be uniquely impacted by their displacement.
I love politics, film, and learning about people and the systems around me. I am also passionate about Constitutional Law. My favorite activities are reading, working on campaigns, writing, and watching movies. Recently, I served as a Delegate to California Boys and Girls State 2023, where I was selected as one of two students to represent California as a Senator at Boys Nation this past July. While there, I presented my resolution on refugees. You can read more about it here.
I’m also a member of the Olivia E. Mitchell LA City Youth Council, where I am advocating for policy on behalf of youth in Los Angeles, including refugee youth. Most of all, I hope that in the future I can help to make the systems which protect refugees function better than they do today.
More about Hugo Chiasson and, “Teens at the Door,” at
www.teensatthedoor.org/ and on IG at @teensatthedoor