Keynotes
Conferences, campuses, and community events — the perspective of a young person who grew up with a parent in prison, delivered to rooms that usually only hear from adults.
About MFGP · Our Team
Anyé Young
Youth Coordinator (Volunteer) · Producer, For Kids Like Me docuseries · 2026 Osborne Fellow. Author, youth advocate, and keynote speaker available for engagements and workshops.
The catalyst
My Fairy GodParents exists because of Anyé. She was a child navigating her father's incarceration, and watching her carry that — the questions no one prepared her for, the resilience she found anyway — is what moved her mother, LaDàna Young, to start the charity work that later became this nonprofit.
Anyé never stayed on the receiving end of that story. She wrote about it, spoke about it on an international stage, and now helps build the programs and resources she once needed. Her voice is the reason MFGP's youth-facing work sounds like it was made by a young person rather than about one.
Author
At 16, Anyé wrote Teen Guide to Living With Incarcerated Parents: A Self-Help Book for Coping During an Age of Mass Incarceration — a self-help guide for teenagers coping with a parent's incarceration, written from inside that experience rather than about it.
The book was translated into Korean in 2020 and featured as a chapter in a publication distributed by Hakjisa Publisher in Seoul, South Korea. It remains one of the few resources written for teens, by a teen who lived it.
Keynote speaker
Anyé delivered a keynote at the 2019 Biennial Conference of the International Coalition for Children With Incarcerated Parents (INCCIP), held at the University of Huddersfield in England.
INCCIP featured her full speech on its website and YouTube channel, putting a young person's account of parental incarceration in front of an international audience of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
Producer, For Kids Like Me
Anyé is a producer on For Kids Like Me, the documentary series MFGP is developing to put the experiences of children and young adults with incarcerated parents on screen in their own words.
Her role spans story development and youth participation — making sure the young people taking part are treated as collaborators, not subjects, and that the series says what it would have needed to say for her.
2026 Osborne Fellow
Anyé was selected for the 2026 Osborne Fellowship, strengthening MFGP's storytelling and resource-building work and connecting it to a wider field of practitioners advancing justice for impacted families.
Featured & heard
- Television features and interviews on MFGP's advocacy and her book — collected on our Media page.
- Guest on the WeGotUsNow podcast, in conversation about growing up with a parent in prison.
- Keynote speech featured by INCCIP on its website and YouTube channel.
Book Anyé
Anyé is available for keynotes, youth workshops, panels, trainings, and family-perspective sessions with schools, conferences, agencies, and community organizations.
Youth workshops
Sessions with teens and young adults on coping, telling your own story, and what support actually helps, drawn from her book and her advocacy work.
Panels & family sessions
Panels, trainings, and family-perspective workshops, often alongside MFGP's Founder & Executive Director and Director of Engagement so all three voices are represented.
Engagements are coordinated through My Fairy GodParents. Send your date, audience, and format through our contact form and MFGP will follow up with availability, scope, and fees.
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Meet the leaders and volunteers behind MFGP's storytelling, advocacy, and family support work.
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Support youth-led advocacy
Anyé's work — the book, the docuseries, the workshops — reaches young people because supporters make it possible. Give, sponsor, or partner with MFGP.