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Community Staff

Sonemani Bitna

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Community:  Bay Area

Position: Senior High School Program Mentor

Queer, Lao Korean Trans-Nonbinary person born and raised in Memphis, TN.

Sonemani loves creating spaces especially for QTPOC youth to thrive in by facilitate healing spaces together to create/reimagine collective liberation for our communities. Especially when it comes to health and wellness, which is why they are excited to be at Summer Search to support in facilitating life enriching experiences for youth in our community.

They graduated from SF state in San Francisco with a BA in philosophy and a minor in Race and Resistance. They love being outside (and taking youth outside!) reading radical manifestos, cooking Lao/Korean foods from scratch, and training martial arts.

Queer, Lao Korean Trans-Nonbinary person born and raised in Memphis, TN.

Sonemani loves creating spaces especially for QTPOC youth to thrive in by facilitate healing spaces together to create/reimagine collective liberation for our communities. Especially when it comes to health and wellness, which is why they are excited to be at Summer Search to support in facilitating life enriching experiences for youth in our community.

They graduated from SF state in San Francisco with a BA in philosophy and a minor in Race and Resistance. They love being outside (and taking youth outside!) reading radical manifestos, cooking Lao/Korean foods from scratch, and training martial arts.