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Celine Qin
Student Employee, Dean for Community Engagement and Diversity
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationBioCeline Qin is a globally-recognized, award-winning youth changemaker, public speaker, and social activist. Born and raised in California as a daughter to Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants, she is a multi-time social impact founder and community organizer centering racial justice, immigrant rights, multicultural solidarity, and anti-carceral youth equity and life development. In 2026, she became 1 of 20 top U.S. female founders selected by Vital Voices Global Partnership as a Grassroots Voices Fellow, investing in women leaders as “venture catalysts” and bold justice visionaries. As a speaker to now a cumulative audience of 400,000+ youth across 171+ countries worldwide, Celine empowers young people to come forth with their stories and reimagine society in their greatest vision.
At just 13 years old, Celine established The Reclamation Project, a non-profit grassroots organization spearheading youth-led movements for systems-change, equity, and liberation within her home state and across the globe. Under her vision as Executive Director, The Reclamation Project has mobilized 270,000+ community members, successfully directed 280+ events, campaigns, and projects, and built a coalition of 2,000+ youth mentees, 175+ social and civic organizational partners, and 250+ volunteers since its start in 2020. With 7+ years of active involvement in changemaking and advocacy, BIPOC and immigrant/refugee youth empowerment, and multicultural social development at grassroots, national, and global scales, Celine’s high-impact leadership mirrors her unwavering mission of societal transformation through innovation, learning, and intention. She has advised nearly $20 million dollars in grants and private and government partnerships to empower youth and establish life-affirming resource networks in historically-underrepresented communities, including directly procuring and reinvesting $600,000+ towards multicultural civic advocacy and leadership development programs for young leaders of racial minority, low-income, immigrant/refugee, and other traditionally-overlooked backgrounds.
Celine’s trailblazing work has been recognized by Princeton University’s Prize in Race Relations, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, the Taco Bell Foundation, members of the United States Congress, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Treasury, California Governor Newsom, California Department of Justice and Attorney General Rob Bonta, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the United Nations Economic and Social Council, the International Organization for Youth, and further UN affiliates, NGOs, and global impact partners. Her impact can be found in NPR’s CapRadio, ABC 10 Northern California, Porte Global, Her Campus, and numerous national and international platforms. She is additionally an Alexander Hamilton Scholar, Brandon Harrison Social Justice Award Winner for Youth Leadership and Youth Organizing, the youngest recipient of the California Youth Rising Trailblazer Award, and the youngest invited guest lecturer to the University of California, Davis.
At Stanford University, Celine is a first-generation college student studying History/Sociology, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and Management Science (Organizational Systems, Policy, and Behavior). As a student staff at Stanford's Asian American Activities Center (A3C) with the Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership and a social impact consultant with Stanford Social Entrepreneurial Students Association, she remains a proactive builder in social impact investing and consulting, social enterprise, fund development, advocacy and justice, and movement organizing and strategy.
