Celine Qin is a globally-recognized, award-winning youth changemaker, social impact founder, and activist. At just 13 years old, Celine founded The Reclamation Project (est. 2020), a 100% youth-led nonprofit social justice organization forging resilient communities and spearheading movements for systems-change, equity, and liberation. As a leader and speaker to 400,000+ youth/allies across 171+ countries, Celine spoken at the United Nations, TEDx, and multiple globally-renowned universities, such as Harvard and Princeton. At The Reclamation Project, Celine has advised the deployment of nearly $20 million dollars in grants and funding partnerships to establish life-affirming resource networks for California youth impacted by trauma, violence, and poverty. Celine’s stewardship has spearheaded racial and economic justice, immigrant/refugee empowerment, climate and tech justice and access, youth innovation/collaboration, and multicultural social development at grassroots, national, and global scales, including directly raising and reinvesting $700,000+ towards mutual aid and multi-year civic leadership and social entrepreneurial pipelines in historically-marginalized youth communities. Under her vision as Executive Director, The Reclamation Project has mobilized 270,000+ community members for social change, built a coalition of 3,200+ long-term youth mentees and 185+ civic/social partner organizations, and successfully directed 280+ in-person events, projects, hybrid campaigns, and programming. Honored by e.l.f Beauty's 22 Under 22 Awards and as 1 of 20 top U.S. female founders selected as a Vital Voices Fellow, recognized alongside women leaders such as Amanda Gorman and multiple Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Celine strives to reimagine society with peoples’ boldest aspirations. In 2026, she was hand-selected as 1 of 35 thought-leaders nationwide as a Network Changemaker at the AI + Human Connection Summit, now working to advance innovative, cross-sector strategies centering youth agency, humanity, development for good, and workforce prosperity in the age of AI, alongside key collaborators at Google DeepMind, Encode Justice, OpenSeat, the Rithm Project, Teach for America, UC Berkeley, Streetcode Academy, and prev-Instagram and Meta. Celine is additionally the Founder of Youth Power Network, a social impact accelerator empowering young founders of color in social enterprise and nonprofits, investing $25,000+ per year in historically-marginalized leaders through seed grants and paid fellowships/internships. She directs guest speaker events with top industry professionals and brand executives, startup founders and CEOs (Forbes 30 Under 30, Stanford/MIT/Harvard, YC), philanthropic funders, and distinguished public service leaders for social good. With VC, impact investing, and venture philanthropy experience across TIME, Fortune, and Forbes-listing companies such as Autodesk, Energy Innovation Capital, and further private and public benefit enterprises, Celine’s high-impact leadership mirrors her unwavering mission of societal transformation through innovation and intention. Celine’s work has been recognized by Princeton University’s Prize in Race Relations, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, Taco Bell Foundation, members of the United States Congress, U.S. Departments of State and Treasury, California Department of Public Health, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, United Nations Economic and Social Council, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Her Campus, NPR’s Cap Radio, Porte Global, and the International Organization of Youth. She is additionally an Alexander Hamilton Scholar, Brandon Harrison Living Legacy Award Winner, and the youngest recipient of the California Youth Rising Trailblazer Award presented by The California Endowment and Urban Strategies Council. Now 19, Celine is a first-generation college student at Stanford University and a proactive builder in social impact investing, social enterprise, fund development, and movement organizing and strategy.