Vy Vu is a visual artist, storyteller, youth developer and sex educator from Hanoi, Vietnam. She comes to YWP with a background in youth development and sexual violence prevention and response. Vy spent her time in Vietnam working with youth in high-need communities, specifically youth with autism, youth with visual disabilities and youth affected by Agent Orange. She got her degree in English and Studio Art from the College of Wooster, Ohio with a focused study on gender and race studies. During her time in college, Vy served her community as an organizer, sex educator, and a sexual violence survivor advocate. Besides her commitment with YWP as a trainer and youth developer, Vy is also committed to doing anti-oppression work. After coming to DC in the summer of 2017, inspired by her artist community, The Sanctuaries, Vy started incorporating the arts into her organizing, as she engaged and collaborated with various communities to use the arts as an empowering and healing tool. In the same summer, she led a series of workshops for youth of color in the DMV area focusing on reclaiming marginalized identities through the arts. Carrying this work internationally, Vy created and spoke at 2017 PICO Prophetic Resistance Summit’s Justice Panel, 2018 Reimagining Interfaith’s Justice Panel, and 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions’ Justice Assembly.