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My family is Italian and it comes from my dads's side. My grandma is from Sicily and my grandpa is from Naples.

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My dad and I at the beach in Los Angeles, my home. Los Angeles will always be the place I call home because I have grown up here and I am very lucky to have had so many diverse experiences here.

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I grew up around Ventura Blvd. throughout the majority of life in Studio City.

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This is me (front) on the World Drumming team during high school.

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Many of my friends have spoken only Spanish in the beginning of our friendships and we have become close friends by teaching each other our "home" languages.

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These are a few of my friends in college, which I met through our club, the International Buddy Program at University of Arizona.

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This is a picture of my family and I when I graduated high school. Family has always been extremely important to me, especially due to my Italian culture.

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This is an example of German, which I chose to learn during college because of my friend in Germany who had become like family to me through our intercultural communication.

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This is from one of my times in Germany. I met this girl next to me on a vacation and we began staying with each other's families in each other's home countries each Summer up until college. We started our friendship by teaching each other German and English.

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This is my nonna and I at our Italian Thanksgiving in Boston, in which we only cook different Italian dishes from scratch and eat with our big Italian family.

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I have always believed that music can unite anyone. I listen to a lot of international music and have been apart of many international drumming bands in high school. People can be brought together through song and dance and it is powerful.

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These values have always been extremely important to me and I feel that they have been apart of my culture throughout my life.

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Equity vs. Equality - Two values that have changed the way I go about life each day. I have always chosen equity because I am passionate about equal opportunities for everyone, especially in a school setting.