Jeffrey Nadel, born in 1993, lives in South Florida. At a young age, he became interested in civil rights and began combatting the injustices he faced on a daily basis. Eventually, his passion for civil rights evolved into a focussed dedication on youth rights. In May 2008, Nadel founded NYRA of Southeast Florida, the chapter of which he is President. The chapter quickly became active, commencing efforts to lower the voting age in Florida to sixteen, meeting with legislators across the state, holding rallies, and spreading awareness. Later that year, the chapter of NYRA began fighting an unconstitutional curfew in West Palm Beach and filed a lawsuit, the first lawsuit filed by a youth-led civil rights group against a curfew, against the City in 2009. In addition to the curfew and voting age, he is interested in all youth rights issues and abhors the injustices to which youth are so commonly subjected. His ultimate goal is to work with youth, adults, legislators, organizations across the country, and others in the community to effect real, lasting change. Elected to the Board in 2009, Jeffrey currently serves as the President of NYRA.

Steve Ross, 18, currently serves as Vice President of the National Youth Rights Association. Steve is from Zionsville in central Indiana, and has been active in the youth rights field since 2007 when, with the help of the ACLU of Indiana, he convinced his town to rescind an unconstitutional curfew ordinance. In early 2008, Steve founded the Zionsville Student Rights Union, a NYRA affiliate that advocates for the rights and interests of students in the community. The now 550 member ZSRU has accomplished its mission by forming synergistic partnerships with school officials and community leaders. The ZSRU was the first NYRA affiliate ever to survive the graduation of all its founders. Ross considers this to be his most significant success. Steve is currently a freshman at Indiana University, studying business with the intent of going on to law school.

Stefan lives in the Chicago area and is currently a sophomore at Harvard. He has been involved in the youth rights movement for several years. During this time, he has led a successful campaign to repeal a local curfew law, and written a number of letters to newspapers and elected officials. For NYRA, he has helped write publications and assisted in web design for chapter websites and our Facebook Application. He hopes to continue using this experience to help the youth rights movement well into the future. Stefan joined the board of directors in 2007 and has served as President, Vice President and now as Treasurer.

Katrina has been involved with NYRA since 2004. She has helped table at many events including NCOR, JSA, and more with NYRA's Washington, D.C. chapter, and has attended all annual meetings from 2005 to present. She has been a moderator for the NYRA forums since 2005 and is a regular contributor to the NYRA blog. Katrina is 25, and she has lived in Montgomery County, MD, her entire life. She graduated from Salisbury State University in 2003, and currently, she is working as a biotech lab assistant. Katrina joined the Board in 2005.

Alex Koroknay-Palicz, originally from Michigan, moved to the DC area after attending American University. During his senior year in high school, Alex successfully changed the policy of several age-discriminatory stores in his hometown of Holland, MI. Since then Alex has become actively involved in all levels of the Youth Rights Movement. In his capacity as NYRA's Executive Director, Alex has appeared on CNN and Fox News several times and has spoken at numerous conferences about youth rights and NYRA. Alex has served as Executive Director since in 2000.

Dave Moss is the Director of Development and Operations at NYRA. He is tasked with ensuring the national office's long term financial sustainability. Prior to joining NYRA, he was the Development Associate at The SEED Foundation in Washington, DC. He has also worked as a fundraiser with Conservation International, Share Our Strength, The Center for Science in the Public Interest, The Greenwood School, The Woodrow Wilson International Center, and Progressive Majority. Dave also gives freely of his time. He is a member of the Grandstreet Network and serves on the board of advisors for Interfaithfamily.com, the Operations Committee for The Slingshot Fund, and the Development Committee for love.futbol. Dave joined the staff in 2009.

Alex Hull-Richter is an actor, writer, and artist. Admitted to the Gifted and Talented Education Program at the age of six, Alex learned first hand about the dumbing-down strategy of the educational system. Since 2000, he has organized civil rights, voting rights and peace rallies and marches and has actively worked to restore democracy to America. Alex joined the Board in 2006.

Chris Batchelor, who resides in central Georgia, was born in September of 1978. Since 1994, he has worked with young people in a variety of fields, both recreational and educational. He is currently working as an elementary school Technology Teacher. He has been with NYRA since May of 2004.

Rich Jahn, originally from Dubuque, Iowa, is a graduate from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering. Rich has a modest background in Information Technology working at Eagle Point Software in Dubuque. He's passed the CompTIA A+ Certification exam, which is for computer hardware. He has background in programming C++ and SQL. Starting June 1, 2006, Rich began working at Open Systems Internation in Minnesota. Rich was elected to the board in 2001, but took a year off for school in 2005. He served as secretary again from 2006-2007.