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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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Eye exams.
Watching older sister record herself reading books.
First grade reading circles.
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class.

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1. My Grandma:
My grandma has always had shelves and boxes full of books and yet was always looking for more. She turns reading into something fun and freeing.
2. Cat and the Hat books
3. Criminal Minds, Greys Anatomy, and Law and Order
I know these aren't the general shows a kid watched growing up but I use to watch them all the time with my mom, I feel like watching these shows helped me kind watch behavior in a way and were a literacy sponsor to me.
4. Bill Nye the science guy
Every science class I was in growing up and even classes that weren't science would play his shows
5. My junior year English teacher
She was one of my first high school English teacher that took the time to help me and guide me in understanding why I read a certain way or struggled writing essays. She made reading and writing fun.
6. Judie bloom books:
I loved Judie bloom books growing up, I use to collect them and read them all
7. Elementary school:
Elementary school was hard for me when it came to having confidence in my reading and writing. We took one of those tests that tells how fast someone reads and how much they understand. At the end of it they told me that I read way to slow and needed to read faster and for some reason that always stuck with me.

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1. Dr. Seuss books helped me able to be able to read
2. My parents helping me out with reading assignments in spanish
3. The show Super Why! helped me be able to help with my reading and writing skills
4. First grade teacher that encouraged us to write our own stories every class
5. My sister being able to help me out with writing assignments especially for upcoming DBQs
6. Mr. Schedl my history teacher for making writing less intimidating and analyzation even more simple
7. Mr. Ramos my high school advisor for getting us ahead and teaching us college level work since Freshman year

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•My Uncle John (would give me books regularly throughout high school to help me become a better reader & writer)
•Coach Meekins (Taught me how to read what's happening on the court and learn every play at quick rate)
•My Aunt Beth (Would read me books when I was younger)
•My little cousins ( I would read them Dr.Seuss books)
•My moms friend ( Was from Poland and would teach me words in polish)
•My moms book collection( I would constantly take my moms books and read them because she would have so many about mental strength)
•Mr.Conner (helped me find tutors to be better prepared for college)

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1. Judy B. Jones books

2. Word world: (Taught me how to spell)

3. Doc mcStuffins

4. Super why:(Told stories)

5. The Mosque

6. My sisters: (Who made me do timed word searches, and played school with me)

7. My Parents: (Who had us taking orders and speaking to people before we could even read)

8.  Mr. Knight: (My French teacher)

9. Amy: (My college advisor who made sure I understood how to fill out my college applications)

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1. My mom buys me anything I need for school and always offers to help me
2. My little cousins help them learn to read and teaching them to write
3. My big brother taught me how to read at 2
4.Watched Sesame Street religiously
5. Watched Dora the explorer
6. Diary of a wimpy kid books helped me kind of enjoy reading
7. My nephew teaching me to be patient
8. My great grandma's collection of Encyclopedia helped me to get more familiar with words.

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1. My mom (Would take me to learning events)
2. The Babysitter book series ( Got me interested into reading)
3. Mr. Jacobs (My drama teacher always encourages and directed and supported me before heading on stage)
4. Coach Baer (Taught me everything I know about how to play Lacrosse)
5. Master Peralta (Taught me everything I know about Tae Kwon Doe and gave me the resources I needed to learn Korean for class)
6. Dora the Explorer (One of my favorite shows growing up)
7. Full House

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1. Translating for my immigrant parents
2. Tennis (Coach would give us a gameplan/tips)
3. Track ( Coach would give us strategies )
4. My grandma
5. My sisters who motivate me and helped me with assignments
6.  The show Dora teaching me lessons
7. Mr. G for teaching us to take accountability since Freshman Years
8. Played School and Doctor with my sisters
9. Roman ( My Youth and Government Program Advisor)
10. Dr.Al School Board VP who mentored me
11. Public Library where they gave incentives such as Toys and Gift Cards
12. Ms.P a teacher, mother, and author showed me how language can be used to make something beautiful.

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1. The Game of Thrones Show: The show was an amazing thing to watch when it was first coming out, however after the eighth season happened I was pushed to find out how the books were so different to the show.

2. Percy Jackson: these books pretty much made my middle school days, with my love of fantasy and reading coming from being assigned to them as a middle schooler.

3.  Translating for my parents: growing up I sought to improve my english constantly to be able to help my parents get their points across all the time.

4. Fury: This was the first film I watched based around world war 2, it influenced my opinion on a number of films and was the start of my opinion on the United States as a whole

5.  My Brother: He was always pushing me to do my best and generally introduced me to a number of my experiences on this list. Without him I wouldn't have as much to say.

6. Greek Mythology: Mythology and Religion in general was a mystery to me until I dabbled in the Greek mythos. I learned of all the influences greece has on us today through it.

7. Elementary School Friends: They are the ones who pushed me into drawing. We all would make these silly little comics back then and without those I wouldn't have found my like of art.

8. Art: Art is what guides a great deal of my literary choices. The creativity in the wording, the flair, all that fascinates me thanks to my love of art. The description of the subject is the best part of reading, or any information I consume.

9.  Film: I just really love film, I consume a majority of film types and they easily influence my interests. Plus film brightens my interests in topics that I had no idea about.

10. Public Opinion: Trends and the like always influence my choices for looking into a topic. Be it a dumb joke or a serious accusation, I can say the public reaction influences my interest and my opinion just as I'm sure other people do too.

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-Percy Jackson series (one of my fav book series growing up.
- The Bible
-Dork diaries (something I related too at the time)
-The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian. (My favorite book I read in a English class)
- Important government documents I read for my parents. (Very stressful btw don’t recommend).
- Literally any book I’ve read during grade 11 for my class (Gogol, Their eyes were watching God, Hamlet… etc).
- Magazines or gossip articles
- Manga such as Tokyo ghoul, Naruto, FMA, AOT, etc
-Random informational articles
- textbooks

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1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: One of the earliest series of books I remember reading over and over, absolutely loving it.
2. My grandma: A whole office room that served as a library consisting of literatures from various cultures.
3. My kindergarten teacher Ms. Martinez: She would write and sing unique versions of ABC's while playing her guitar to us, also had her own lullabies.
4. My sophomore year teach Mr. McGarry: He would give us a new word of the day, teaching us new vocabulary despite for some strange reason being asked not to by the principal at the time.
5. I suppose PBS Kids, most notably Sesame Street: The show had always been very educational to the development of youth.
6. My mom: She'd read various children's books to me before bed in my early elementary school years such as books from Dr. Seuss.
7. Video games: Some would have lots of in game dialogue and in depth descriptions of AI's and missions/ objectives within the game.
8. My Spanish teacher Mr. Cuervo: He taught me the basics of spanish that I somehow never managed to pick up in my own household.
9. Music: so many rappers I've grown up listening to

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1. My mom always had our house full of books and encouraged us to read on our free time

2. A kids show called Super Why! that helped me especially with being able to put sentences together

3. A kids show called Martha Speaks that helped me talk more when I would watch it

4. My high school teacher Mr. Lara that always made the classroom fun so we wouldn’t feel as intimidated when writing essays

5. My high school teacher Mr. Hsu that always encouraged us to learn and always answered my questions concerning reading an article or writing essays

6. My grandma would always have a Spanish kids show playing and that helped me with my Spanish vocabulary

7. My Spanish teacher Ms. Tovar helped me by teaching me how to expand my knowledge on reading and writing in spanish

8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid was a book series that I used to read growing up. Sometimes even when I was still having trouble reading, I always read it as a challenge to myself