Christian Barborini (they/them) is the Youth Health Qualitative Research Coordinator working at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Their work utilizes community-based, qualitative, and arts-based methods within the realm of youth substance use, mental health, as well as unstable housing and homelessness. They work out of the At-Risk Youth Study (ARYS) field office where, alongside coordination of various qualitative research studies, they also facilitate three different youth groups with the shared goal of informing drug policy and practice through research guided by the perspectives of young people with lived or living experience of substance use. Christian’s work is informed by their years of experience working with youth populations and organizing within 2S/LGBTQIA+ community. They are committed to approaching public health research from an intersectional, community-based lens that is grounded in fundamental social and health justice principles.