AFCY YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL

AFCY’s Youth Advisory Council meets monthly in order to provide valuable programming input to AFCY from the perspective of a young person. Members of the Council are youth who have participated in our outreach programs over the past few years and who live in the communities that we work with.

Erin Amoah

Adrion Charles

Fitzroy Facey

Balu Kanagalingam
Being raised in the Netherlands for half of his life, Balu bringd his own unique set of skills to AFCY. In his fourth year at Ryerson University, majoring in Accounting and minoring in Human Resources, Balu has been involved with many community initiatives including Horizon Arts Camp, Habitat for Humanity, Unity Charity, Hip Hop Away from Violence (HHAFV), and White Ribbon Campaign. Within HHAFV he has expressed immense commitment and determination by performing/teaching at different high schools around Ontario, by expressing his own positive outlet, beatboxing. He has also performed internationally in Amsterdam representing Canada as a vocal percussionist in 2008. Balu has facilitated many AFCY programs leading youth (ages 8 – 25 years) for organizations such as Covenant House, Yonge Street Mission (within CCC) near Regent Park, and has been a tutorial head of a business course at his university.

Jordan Lewis

Casandra London
Casandra is a young dub poet at the university of Guelphhumber paving a way to express her creative talents to viewers in Toronto.
This hardworking and determined artist plans to pursue a career in broadcasting journalism. She hopes by continuing to assist dub poetry workshops she will inspire other youths to express themselves.

Patricia McLellan

Idan McAnuff

Stephanie “HopeSpa” Spafford
Stephanie HopeSpa is an undergraduate student at York University majoring in Visual arts and minoring in Jazz vocal music. She is currently directing the AFCY Big Bam Boom and is an active member on the AFCY Youth Advisory Council. She has performed at venues such as the Paramount Theatre, the Elgin Winter Garden Theatre, The Underground @ York, and won 1st place at the Junction Arts Festival Teen Talent Contest. She is an aspiring writer and singer and hopes to pursue a career in teaching.