Maya Al-Jamie is a Sister Cities International Southern California Chapter Youth Ambassador and the 2021 California Youth Leadership Summit High School Chair. Through her involvement as a SoCal Sister Cities Youth Ambassador and a volunteer helping to host students from overseas as well as guide students from California on a tour of Tokyo, Maya was inspired to volunteer for the California Youth Leadership Summit.

During the 2021 California Youth Leadership Summit, Maya was a junior at Orange Lutheran High School. Prior to the pandemic, she played on the Villa Park High School water polo and swim team as well as participated on the mock trial team as an expert witness. She was the President of the Orange County, California Chapter of High School Democrats of America and the Vice President of the Orange/Anaheim Chapter of Dear Asian Youth. Her plans for the future are to study neuroscience and women’s studies on a pre-med track. After college, she plans on attending medical school to become an OB-GYN and help give women of color and lower socioeconomic status access to better quality health care.