Lukas Brekke-Miesner (he/him/his) is a youth advocate, writer, and the Executive Director of Oakland Kids First, where he has spent the past fifteen years centering the leadership of youth of color in fights for educational justice.
A fourth-generation Oaklander, Lukas is a proud product of Oakland public schools, local youth organizations, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He brings a collaborative approach to organizational leadership, a commitment to intergenerational power-building, and almost two decades of experience in youth development and organizing. Most recently, he helped lead the Oakland Youth Vote coalition through a successful five year organizing campaign to win and implement voting rights in local school board elections for 16 and 17 year-old Oaklanders.
His writing about the Oakland Youth Vote campaign was published in the international organizing journal The Forge, and he is also featured in the documentary First Friday and season 5 of Netflix’s Last Chance U. Lukas is a winner of the Oakland Indie Awards’ Oakland Soul award and received a Pillar of Oakland award in 2022.