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I was born on May 22, 2002 in Spring, TX. I am the youngest of three girls. My sisters are 22 and 19 years older than me, so growing up I was almost like an only child since both of them were out of the house and had moved away by the time I was old enough to interact with them.

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I started going to daycare when I was 2 years old at Trinity Lutheran School and I attended school there until 8th grade. I really enjoyed going to school there at the time because it was very competitive and pushed me to my limits academically.

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My class during elementary and middle school never exceeded 75 kids. Everyone was friends with everyone and I never had to go outside of my comfort zone to meet anyone.  

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While I was in middle school I was i a lot of different sports and after school activities. Balancing all of these taught me to be more responsible and to have better time management skills

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Since I went to a private school for 12 years I am very familiar with religion. We had religion class everyday and chapel as a school every Wednesday morning. When I was younger I thought everyone was pretty invested into their church and didn't realize that wasn't the case until high school. 

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When I started high school I only knew one other person from my old school. I joined my school's drill team and was able to connect with people that way. 

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In sophomore year we found out that my maternal grandma had pancreatic cancer and my paternal grandpa's cancer was no longer in remission. They both passed away in November 2018 within 5 days of one another. It was very hard to cope with the loss of my grandparents and it is still hard to accept that they won't be here to see me grow up. 

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When I started applying to colleges I was very unsure where I was going to end up attending. As soon as I got my acceptance to UT I knew that it was the perfect fit for me. Moving away from my parents was hard, but I love Austin already and I am so excited to see what the future holds. 

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r5LzNwjmJXZPp7U388Z3OMZJm-UK-pSK/view?usp=sharing

The file was too big to directly upload so I put it on google drive :)

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GikhXVdbLxybGQ8VF1n_dWGyxMEsYKqU/view?usp=sharing

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I was definitely able to use my agency growing up. My school was over 90% white students and we were given a lot of freedoms in our intellectual growth but not our social growth. There was a heavy influence on discipline and if you were labeled as the "bad kid" then you were the social outcast in school. This just forced us all the become better students than children. I feel like as a whole my class matured faster.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/19X3Vv6lLUTtWV_lkOTzV8uP5uKFGgKCr/view?usp=sharing

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I am the youngest child so I was definitely hovered over and never really left by myself to figure out things. It was enacted in someways. I was my only playmate when I was really young and I would use my imagination and make up crazy scenarios. I had the freedom to express myself, but if I ever did understand something my parents were quick to jump in and help me.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GneJ5svbU25L3JxNLN-cyJqPOlznf7Gt/view?usp=sharing

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I went to an majority white school growing up and I knew that there were problems of racism in the world but I never was a witness to it until I got to high school. I was always shocked by the things that I took for granted and assumed everyone had the privilege of. For instance, knowing that because of my race I would not be stereotyped in the classroom as the troublemaker. It was always unsettling to me but I never knew how to speak up for my peers.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BT2doY4KFn--oHNhIGd3mLkTldF9cOGv/view?usp=sharing

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When I was younger I was really into Hot Wheels and Barbie and my parents let me play with both. I was also in a preschool class with four girls and 11 boys so I was exposed to cross gender play from a young age. The way that I was raised I never really thought about gender in everyday and not until I hit puberty did I realize that because I am a girl I am treated differently by male authority figures and peers.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oHewRwEim3A_onbohpxVoboxDHXL6dj-/view?usp=sharing

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1PX51maA1VDyrz-CKdV397Mu6CPIGoj/view?usp=drivesdk

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In elementary school I was able to take "Spanish" classes starting in third grade. For our school, 3rd-6th grade had the same Spanish teacher so there was a definite strain on resources as far as languages other than English. Our Spanish teacher had to balance teaching kids across grade levels and at different skill levels in the language. We only had Spanish once or twice a week for around 30 minutes so our exposure to the language was not as extensive as it could have been. I have taken Spanish classes from third grade to 11th grade but I feel like I am far from proficient in the language. I would like to get better and be able to hold coherent conversations in Spanish one day.

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Growing up in school, I was never exposed to people with disabilities and the people that I knew that had a learning disability or something like that were not fully accepted and for a while everyone at my school claimed dyslexia and ADHD to be fake and the students with these learning disorders were often told they were faking it. Moving into high school I joined best buddies and was exposed to more people with disabilities and saw how they went about their

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xegg45kG90wIF-4ONaqwnQXG42_xNLEp/view?usp=sharing

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Culture impacted my life in not a very large way. I was not exposed to different cultures until later in my adolescents and for most of my childhood I was ignorant that there were cultures other than the one I grew up it. Once I was exposed to other cultures, I realized how rich and amazing they can be and it brought a lot of color to my life.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qbLoIKJXsfA1TrX8PHOo9B7utb1G7qWi/view?usp=sharing

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IpKzRd-g4FUMYl7Ypr4fCWsSyLvmUL4a/view?usp=sharing

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I never really thought about space and justice as a child. I went to a majority white private school that did not talk about black history in anyway. Looking back on my time there and my hometown in general, it is very apparent to me that there are clear racial divides in spaces and I will be sure to research and educate myself on the history of the land.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TY4d883m7h3JEON7VRyOtnFa9P-9PtVd/view?usp=sharing

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WWZt8qJdbcmr6YF_OwnwhbCkyIps2s3z/view?usp=sharing

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I think that the most important thing a teacher or someone who works with kids can do when working with a kids with trauma is to make sure that they don't put them down or belittle them because of it. Helping children understand that you are not there to hurt them, but rather you want to help them overcome their trauma an learn how to deal with it.

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The kind of person that I want to be around children is someone that listens and views the children has people that are on my level and not people beneath me. I want to be someone that the children feel safe and secure around. I want to be able to teach the children I work with how to treat everyone with kindness and how to be considerate of everyone.