Anika Mangla of Fremont, Calif., is the 2025 Alameda County Youth Poet Laureate. (Alameda County Library via Bay City News)

Alameda County’s newest youth poet laureate is a senior at Fremont’s Irvington High School who says, for her, poetry is a form of dialogue, protest and healing.

Anika Mangla was selected by a panel of judges based on “the content, craft, and voice” of her poetry, according to an announcement from the Alameda County Library system.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.