Samantha Lilienfeld is YC’s Communications and Development Manager where she supports the organization’s marketing and external outreach campaigns, working in support of the writing program, teen-written story distribution, and education programming. Prior to joining Youth Communication, Samantha worked with the NYC Department of Education’s Office of Community Schools as an AmeriCorps VISTA and Coro NY’s Participatory Budgeting Youth Fellowship program. Samantha has an MA in Liberal Studies from CUNY Graduate Center and a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She lives in Brooklyn by way of Los Angeles.