Meet Our Team
The team at Minnesota Youth Collective is a group of passionate, engaged individuals who represent the communities we work with. Our team is young, majority BIPOC, and majority LGBTQIA+, so when we work on issues and in communities, we understand them firsthand.
Meghan Daly (they/she)
Advocacy Manager
meghan@mnyouthcollective.org
Meg began their journey with the Minnesota Youth Collective as a Policy Fellow in 2020 and joined the team full time in September 2022. They come to MNYC by way of the Housing Justice Center, where they worked on the Keep St. Paul Home campaign to pass the strongest rent stabilization policy in the country. Meg believes that storytelling, strong policy analysis, and most importantly, organized people are at the heart of effective issue advocacy. Meg graduated from Middlebury College in 2018 where they majored in English literature, managed the campus radio station, and learned how to organize around different issues. In their spare time, Meg enjoys baking, learning about the diverse biomes of Mni Sota Makoce, and chasing the perfect slice joint. Born and raised on Long Island (Lawn Guyland), Meg lives in St. Paul with their significant other and two cats, Moonie and Selkie.
Rahhel Haile (she/they)
Executive Director
rahhel@mnyouthcollective.org
Rahhel co-founded the Minnesota Youth Collective and has an extensive background in youth organizing in hope of prioritizing working with BIPOC youth without co-opting their movements. Rahhel believes that visioning for an abundant future is a powerful way to move beyond the constraints of the present and offers a pathway to experiencing sizable change in our lifetimes. She values empathy, transparency, and collaboration within her leadership at MNYC. In her free time, she loves watching a bad cult classic movie, manifesting a future with a dachshund, and trying all the hot sauces she can.
Kassidy Tarala (she/her)
Communications Director
kassidy@mnyouthcollective.org
Kassidy joined the Minnesota Youth Collective in July 2022, and she also works as a freelance journalist for the Minnesota Women’s Press and Lavender magazine and a volunteer editor with Empowerment Avenue. She also volunteers with the Minnesota and Twin Cities chapters of Planned Parenthood as well as Communities United Against Police Brutality. She is passionate about abolition, abortion rights, LGBTQ+ liberation, and housing advocacy. Her interests include musical theater, waterparks, her dog Harvey, horror films, skateboarding, listening to MUNA, and taking care of her 30+ houseplants.
Natalie Somerson (she/her)
Advocacy Director
natalie@mnyouthcollective.org
Over the past decade that Natalie has called Minnesota home, she has managed youth leadership development programs and created opportunities for young people to discover the overlap between their identities and advocacy work, which led her to the Minnesota Youth Collective in June 2022. She believes in the contagious power of civic engagement and shifting power dynamics. In her free time, you can find Natalie curating her earring collection, walking around the lakes, and looking for an excuse to eat ice cream!
Sumaya Ali (she/her)
Development Manager
sumaya@mnyouthcollective.org
Having joined the Minnesota Youth Collective in October 2019, Sumaya works alongside Adrienne and Rahhel to secure funding for the Minnesota Youth Collective. Outside of work, she loves to spend time outdoors hiking, camping, and hammocking. She also enjoys live music and going to shows. Sumaya is an aspiring birth worker and a lifelong student of the reproductive justice framework, which is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, to have children, to not have children, and to parent children in safe and sustainable communities. She believes that through radical reproductive justice we can achieve collective liberation.
Adrienne Doyle (she/they)
Development Director
adrienne@mnyouthcollective.org
Adrienne joined the Minnesota Youth Collective in June 2021 and is an artist organizer and fund development professional with an eye for resource systems and a love for lush exploration. With experience in youth-led research and community organizing, Adrienne applies a wealth justice lens to their fundraising work while centering the voice and political leadership of young people. Outside of work, they are reinvesting in their Black queer imagination through creative writing.
Taylor Ngiri Seaberg (they/them)
Operations Manager
taylor@mnyouthcollective.org
Taylor Ngiri Seaberg joined the Minnesota Youth Collective in February 2020 as the operations manager. They are a a Kenyan-American, gender-nonbinary community organizer and multi-instrumentalist based in Chicago, Illinois, originally from South Minneapolis. They have been awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant and Red Bull Arts grant for their protest photography around the 2020 Uprising in the Twin Cities. Taylor was a lead director on a compilation community album called “The Art of the Revolution,” which included works of resilience from 10 Black arts organizers and activists. They are currently a Metro Regional Arts Council finalist for the $5,000 Next Step Fund grant for a live-streaming concert incorporating Kiswahili and English for a live production showcase.