This Tustin teen started a nonprofit to help unhoused youth. Now she’s heading to UCI

This Tustin teen started a nonprofit to help unhoused youth. Now she’s heading to UCI

While frequently donating items to the Orange County Rescue Mission, Nikka Shahrokni and a group of her Arnold O. Beckman High classmates noticed much of its programming for homeless youth lacked peer involvement. They decided they could help and founded the nonprofit Kreative Kiddos in January 2020. There, Shahrokni and the other volunteers teach STEAM-driven activities — which encompasses science, technology, engineering, arts and math — to ch…