About

Charlotte Yeung is a writer, youth poet laureate, and researcher.

She has significant involvement with international communities. As a US attendee for the 2022 Hiroshima ICAN Academy, she went to Hiroshima where she discussed nuclear policy with the governor and mayor of Hiroshima and met with survivors of the atomic bomb. As a New Voices on Nuclear Weapons Fellow, she researched nuclear education and culture in America and Japan. She has previously researched mis/disinformation and tech policy. She is the founder and lead instructor for a poetry workshop series for women and girls in Afghanistan. As a Frederick Douglass Global Fellow, she learned about apartheid and the Troubles from the likes of Mpho Tutu and Professor Christine Kinealy. 

Her award-winning art and writing is published on multiple platforms from the New York Times to Carnegie Hall. Her first multilingual poem will be sent to the Moon in 2024 as part of the Lunar Codex. Her children's book, Isabelle and the Magic Bird, was an Amazon #1 New Release.  

She is a junior at Purdue University majoring in Political Science. She is currently on an academic exchange at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She studies French and Japanese. 

She aspires to have a career in weapons removal.

In her free time, she reads books, bakes desserts, and travels all over the world.