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Ryland Adzich is a freshman located in Northern California and was our first ambassador. Ryland completed numerous book drives, recruited and trained volunteers, and created the Bookworm Global YouTube Channel.  Ryland donated thousands of books to The Children's Book Project and several schools in underserved communities throghout Northern and Central California. Ryland started the Bookworm Global YouTube Channel where she interviews authors and librarians. Check out the YouTube Channel Here. 

Chloe joined us after doing independent research on Bookworm Global's impact through the WISL institute. Their research revealed that our book donations are changing attitudes about reading and increasing the amount of time families reading at home.  Chloe will assume the role of lead Research Ambassador at Bookworm Global and helm our investigation into how our donations can foster literacy.  Along with Bookworm Global, Chloe and WISL are doing a Read 3 program to encourage summer reading. 

Noa is a bibliophile and aims to encourage others to find her same love of reading and collecting books. Noa has great intentions to improve literacy rates throughout her city and beyond by creating innovative book campaigns. She gathered over 900 books in her first drive to create a lending library for an underserved school. She is currently a high school student who has participated in multiple book clubs and reading challenges. She is interested in film, architecture, and production design.  Noa has collected just under 3000 books and participated in 5 book drops at schools throughout Los Angeles.  Noa also manages out Tik Tok presence.  

Sarah is a nationally recognized Girl Scout and our liaison for service groups. Sarah will be working specifically with Girl Scouts to get a literacy patch approved. She is responsible for helping improve training and marketing materials, customized by age, for Girl Scout Troops. Sarah hopes to expand the reach of Bookworm Global through Girl Scouts.  

Ameerah is a philanthropic filmaker who partners with Bookworm Global to help remove educational barriers for children in underserved communities. Ameerah raised thousands of dollars by tutoring and used the proceed to buy headsets for schools in Los Angeles for online schooling. Delivering headsets and books to schools helps battle the twin issues associated with online learning, distraction and educational slide. Ameerah will be delivering books to India for Bookworm Global Summer 2021.  Ameerha will also be filming documentaries and promotional videos for Bookworm Global and our partners. 

Will helped collect and sort thousands of books. He loves reading and talking about books with his family. Will promotes recycling books to benefit the environment and because he is concerned about education equity and the growing educational gap increased by the pandemic.  Will has recruited volunteers and organizations to participate in book drives.  

Sriya is our first ambassador from Seattle, Washington. She is a High School Junior and has experience volunteering at two KCLS libraries in King County. She is excited to continue supporting budding readers, though libraries are closed during COVID. She has collected 2000+ books already and has done an interview with an author who donated to her first drive.

Ella is a dystopian YA enthusiast. She has collected over 1000 books in Riverside, CA.  Ella is on the leadership council at her school and looks forward to leading an in-person book drive when school resumes.  Ella enjoys volunteering with Bookworm Global during the pandemic. 

Eden enjoys science fiction and dystopian novels and is featured here with her favorite book.  Eden completed a very successful book drive around International Literacy Day and enjoyed it so much that she plans to do a holiday book drive.  She aims to donate books to children in underserved communities as part of their holiday gifts.  She hopes that receiving a book will inspire more kids to read. 

Adar has been working hard to collect and sort books for Watts Learning Center.   

Hayden enjoys reading all types of young adult fiction. Some of her favorite books are The Outsiders, A Christmas Carol, and Never Let Me Go. She has collected over 850 books so far and hopes to collect many more throughout high school. She knows it is more important than ever to donate books to those who really need them during the pandemic.  She is happy to to help with this in any way I can. 

Niku is a freshman in high school and enjoys reading YA.  Her favorite books are The Outsiders, Little Women, and The Hate You Give. She enjoys hosting small book clubs for younger kids and writing. She also has a website that shares short informational articles regarding popular news that are trending on social media! NIku did a book drive for us in December 2020.