The Youth Advisory Council is a team of servant-leaders, ages 14-21, recognized for their dedication to promoting youth leadership, service-learning, youth-adult partnerships, and diversity. YAC members come to NYLC from the National Youth Leadership Training, where each summer young people from across the United States learn skills needed to:

• enhance awareness of social, political, and environmental issues
• motivate action for the common good
• build capacity for taking effective action — individually, in groups, and in organizations
• strengthen abilities to work cooperatively across races, ethnicities, genders, geographies, and socioeconomic backgrounds

YAC advises NYLC on its programming, staffs the National Youth Leadership Training and The National Service-Learning Conference, and brings a valuable youth perspective to the organization’s work. Some YAC members also serve as NYLC Board of Directors members.