Ryan Bao

Project Coordinator

5 Questions to Learn More About Ryan:

Q1. WHAT IS YOUR JOB TITLE?

Project Coordinator

Q2. WHAT ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES?

As a Project Coordinator, I coordinate the execution of the 12-month strategy through the champions in individual strategies. Within this 12-month strategy, I am responsible for the inventory and curation of resources to our members and broader public. I also sit on the core team of the National Dialogue producing, synthesizing, and archiving communicative material to the National Leadership Network and the public. Along with these responsibilities, I manage the shipping and handling of the store and its publications while performing miscellaneous office tasks.

Q3. WHY DO YOU WORK FOR NFCYM?

I began working for NFCYM as an intern in 2017. From my ambition as a youth leader throughout high school, my aspirations to make a larger impact miraculously landed me at NFCYM. I believe it is a great opportunity to develop myself as a leader in the field and represent young people at a national level. I am very lucky and blessed to have this position and am excited for what fruits it will bear on myself and young people across the nation.

Q4. WHAT ARE YOUR STRENGTHS?

My top five Clifton Strengths are: Connectedness, Command, Ideation, Significance, and Deliberative


I always have a high-level view on projects and ideas while relating it to my own work and how it fits into the picture.

Q5. CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT…

Contact me if you need any help with store shipping, any shipments from the NFCYM office, getting in contact with other staff members, the National Dialogue, and general inquiries for our organization.

I am based in Washington, DC and can be reached at [email protected] or 202-301-5167.

Yazmín Maní Malone

Pastoral Juvenil Hispana Coordinator,
Diocese of Austin


Diocesan Member

"NFCYM has accompanied me in reaching out to like minded professionals to better provide service (ministry) to adolescents. NFCYM has allowed me to network and grow professionally.

'Youth as Protagonists' has been essential to Pastoral Juvenil Hispana in the Diocese of Austin."

Eva P. Delgado

Youth Minister, St. Christopher Church

Associate Member

"The various resources have helped me keep our program exciting and vibrant. NFCYM has provided me with shared information via webinars, workshops, conferences, outreach, and opportunities that are very informative to help make my ministry successful.

NFCYM is an open forum for me to seek material, guidance and support in keeping the youth ministry program successful."