Monday Hi-Five with Ysian Hassel of MyCom

Ysian Hassel is a Cleveland native, growing up in Shaker Heights. As a freshman at Shaker Heights High School, she joined the Shaker Heights Youth Council, and has been familiar with MyCom's partnerships and programming ever since.

Ysian went on to Cuyahoga Community College and is now MyCom's Youth Liaison and Logistics Coordinator. She excels at connecting youths and youth organizations to resources and opportunities and takes great pride in approaching her work with a youth's perspective in mind.

She also takes a primary role in Youth Connect 216, a program that works to identify young adults with high potential but not currently employed or enrolled in school and connecting them with employment and training opportunities.

Monday's Five Questions for
Ysian Hassel

• Who inspires/ed you to do the work you do?
  • I am inspired by the powerful and generous women who have shaped me into the individual that I am today by extending their complete patience, compassion and grace. I aspire to be the person for the youth that I needed when I was younger.
• Were you always going to work in youth development?
  • Where I am immensely grateful there has always been a place for me in the youth development workforce, I am striving to create a reality where my passion for art and my desire to help youth collide. I am looking forward to a future where I can apply/teach art therapy and different forms of creative outlets to youth.

Read More Here About Ysian!