Four projects, one through-line: when a community is being under-funded, excluded, or unprotected, organize the response.
When federal cuts threatened the UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health, Jonah co-launched a fundraising initiative that raised over $150,000 to keep critical research alive — work later featured in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health magazine's new "Join Jonah" campaign.
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Jonah founded and produced the first-ever South Bay Queer Prom — an all-ages, judgment-free night built so LGBTQ+ students could experience a prom that felt unmistakably theirs. The event drew teens from across the South Bay and was covered on the front page of The Beach Reporter and in the Daily Breeze.
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Organized and led a school walkout in protest of unlawful ICE detentions — rallying 900 students in a peaceful demonstration that turned student concern into collective action and visibility.
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Now in his fourth year on the Beach Cities Health District Youth Advisory Council, Jonah has risen to its most senior leadership role — Co-Chair — guiding a team of 40 students after first joining in 8th grade. In that role he presented a workshop on youth advocacy and legislation at the 2026 South Bay Leadership & Wellness Conference alongside members of Congressman Ted Lieu's Youth Advisory Council, to an audience of roughly 100 community members and local leaders.