Dear Members of the Outreach Committee,

After a year of focused Outreach activities in Brazil, it is clear that our efforts have started to pay off. Working together with Nivaldo to promote the BC in near real time in Portuguese, we’ve presented at conferences like RioInfo and Futurecom, and had success bringing in new – and influential – members like ABES. We’ve gone beyond "wanting" more participation from LAC to actually going out there to find it.

I am very pleased to inform you all that I both have a paper accepted for Giganet on the subject of ICANN policymaking, and have also been asked to speak on the panel "WS #90 Achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in a Digital Future: Where Do Youth Stand?".

In these initiatives, I intend to promote the BC among new audiences. As the BC’s youngest regular contributor, it is my wish to encourage a broader range of people to participate in the ICANN and IGF spaces, and to think about the impact that Internet policy can have on their lives as young entrepreneurs, consumers and future leaders.

The panel will be an opportunity to reach a different and quite diverse audience, and start tapping into demographic that have not been explored much yet. I know we want to expand the BC’s impressive accomplishments in diversity, and that certainly includes adding younger members to a team that is every day more balanced in terms of geography, language and gender.

It would be my pleasure to help bring in a new generation of people that one day will have the same pull as Marilyn, Andrew, Jimson or Nivaldo, and I think I’ll have the chance to start that at this IGF.

I have secured most of the funding I need, including lodging and per diem, but am still looking for funds to cover air tickets which will be around 1500 dollars, which I would like to request from the BC.

Tickets are getting more expensive by the day, and I think the opportunity is a worthwhile one which makes sense for the BC given my speaking and my unique place as a young contributor and in a way, a youth ambassador for the BC.

I will be reaching an audience of estimated 60 heads in person + 40 remote (from my previous experience in my 2015 panel, WS225: "Hands-on youth-driven Internet initiatives"), but will be involved in business and youth activities throughout IGF and expect to reach many more participants who could be good contributors to the BC and our agenda.

Thank you for your consideration.