PCA Youth Center
student council
Meet the team! The Student Council relies on a group of strong individuals. Feel free to contact any of our members with questions!
Yi-Fei Zhao
Advisory Board
Yi-Fei was previously the Co-President for a year. He has been helping out in the community by planning events for over 4 years. In his free time, he likes to run, code, swim, and hang out with friends. You can contact Yi-fei at yifeizhaogege@gmail.com
with any questions.
Kevin Mao
Advisory Board
Prior to Kevin's role as a counselor, he was the Co-President and Co-Vice President in 2020 and 2021. Kevin has been a part of PCA for over 4 years. He enjoys speaking, coding, and helping to plan events for the PCA community. You can contact Kevin at kevinmao660@gmail.com.
Edward Mei
Advisory Board
Edward previously served as a Co-President of the PCA Student Council. He has been in PCA for over 3 years. Edward enjoys playing soccer, coding, and helping plan PCA events. You can contact Edward at meis201601@gmail.com.
Sophia Liao
Junior Advisor
Sophia was a Co-president with Edward before becoming a junior advisor. She is also the leader of the Variations of Art program. Sophia enjoys helping the community. In the free time, she likes making art and listening to music. You can contact her at sophialiao2209@gmail.com.
Aaron Peng
Junior Advisor
In the past, Aaron has been the Webmaster and Vice President. Aaron has been a part of PCA for over 4 years now. He enjoys reading, playing board games, spending time with family, playing piano, and participating in PCA events. You can contact Aaron at pzq0406@gmail.com.
Iris Xia
President
Before Iris became PCA Student Council's president, she was previously on the events team when she joined in November of 2019. Her hobbies include drawing and photography. Iris also likes to play tennis and go swimming. You can contact her at irissummerx@gmail.com.
Colin Liang
Vice President
Colin Liang joined the PCA Youth Student Council in 2021. Currently, he is a Vice President and part of the Website/Blog Committee. In his free time, Colin enjoys playing golf, learning to skateboard, and hanging out with his friends. You can contact him at jhaposu@gmail.com.
Jason Ma
Vice President
Jason Ma is a Vice President of the PCA Youth Student Council and part of the Public Relations Committee. He likes listening to music, playing piano, and competing in Smash Bros. tournaments in his free time. You can contact Jason at jasonma200516@gmail.com.
Ava Liu
Secretary
Ava Liu is PCA's secretary and part of the Events Planning Committee. She likes listening to music, drawing, and photography. You can contact Ava at avaliu0515@gmail.com.
Vivien Li
PR Director
Vivien Li handles PCA's social media and other public relations as the PR director. She loves swimming, baking, planting, sewing and coffee! You can contact her at liviv@gmail.com.
Lina Fu
Webmaster
Lina joined the Web and Blog team before becoming PCA's Webmaster. She enjoys baking, coding, listening to music, and helping the community through PCA. You can contact Lina at linafu1290@gmail.com
Joanna Bi
Reporter
A note from the council:
The PCA Youth Center Student Council is made up of student volunteers who come together under the same mission and drive---to promote love and care for the community by creating and supporting hands-on learning opportunities for the youth demographic and upcoming generation. Here at PCA, you explore ideas, encourage collaboration, inspire leadership, and connect with the community.
Our Student Council is dedicated to creating fun and educational events for our youth community. In general, we plan and host new events every 2 months based on public interest. Some of the past events we have held include Chinese art festivals, STEM night, career-oriented panel discussions, skill workshops such as coding or Speech and Debate, and an online escape room. Currently, we are running our Pittsburgh Online Youtuber event. In order to efficiently create events that run smoothly while maintaining our social media and website, our student council is divided into sub-committees (general managers, public relations, webmasters/bloggers, and event planners) that meet separately but come together as a whole at our weekly council meeting. Each member is essential to the overall council and is responsible for their own part. Our members develop leadership skills and learn how to collaborate and exchange ideas, allowing them to broaden and expand their network with each other and the community. In addition, members get at least 40 hours of volunteer work every year.
We also provide volunteer opportunities for those not in our council. In the past, we’ve organized small groups of volunteers from our PCA volunteer pool to help at the Jubilee Kitchen and the Ronald McDonald House of Charity. For general events, these volunteers may also be asked to help with proctoring, setup, and tear down at the events held by the student council as well.
If you are interested in joining our student council or volunteer group, apply today! We welcome anyone from any background and we look forward to seeing some new faces!
Best,
The PCA Youth Center Student Council