Charlotte Yeung

THE POWER OF A VOICE

Charlotte Yeung is a UN Youth Disarmament Champion, activist, and author dedicated to using storytelling and education for social change. As a New Voices on Nuclear Weapons Fellow for the Federation of American Scientists, she was a civil society observer at the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the UN and collaborates with the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs to plant A-bomb trees across the U.S. and South America, preserving history while advocating for peace.

A poet and educator, Yeung served as the Midwest Youth Poet Ambassador and Indianapolis Youth Poet Laureate, using her words to highlight resilience and justice. She founded a poetry course for women and girls in Afghanistan and later taught at an underground school under Taliban rule. As a Frederick Douglass Fellow, she performed poetry at the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Dublin, exploring systemic oppression and leadership. In 2025, her multilingual poem will be sent to the moon via the Lunar Codex, etching her words among the stars. Currently, she studies Political Science at Freie Universität, Bristol University, Waseda University, and Purdue University, focusing on advocacy, education, and the arts.