Youth Specialist & Grassroots Leader, Yew Tee Youth Network & Yew Tee MAEC

Qayyum Lukman

From media to ground-uppowering youth work with passion and purpose. Qayyum Lukman wears many hats, but his heart is rooted in community. As a Youth Specialist at Boys’ Town and a passionate Grassroots Leader in Yew Tee, he champions the idea that youth engagement should come from what truly excites and empowers young people. 

At the Yew Tee Youth Network, he helps volunteers and leaders shape projects from their own passions, turning ideas into action for the good of the community. His biggest belief? Hard work takes you halfway, but passion takes you all the way. It’s this drive that makes the impossible feel a little more manageable.

The risk that changed everything? Leaving a stable path in media and entertainment to pursue full-time youth work. That leap opened the door to a deeper calling to building up others, one conversation and connection at a time.