 My involvement with queer youth programs affects my relationship with peers in a few ways. I'd say that they respect my level of coolness because I am up to date on kind of the newest pop culture hot topics because of the youth. I think that my peers all recognize what a special opportunity I have and so they're extra supportive of me. And I think that running the program affects my relationship with peers also because whenever they have a question or an issue around, you know, the LGBTQ community they feel like they can come to me for some valuable insight or feedback. My organization, the Diversity Center and the program Strange that we co-run, our, you know, one of our major purposes is to support schools and youth around this very issue of making the school environment safer for LGBTQ youth. We do that in a few different ways. We support local GSA QSA rainbow alliances in the middle schools and high schools. And we also have a weekly meeting of a youth leadership committee who work very hard to maintain a safe space for LGBT youth to come to and feel welcomed and meet new other people and feel less isolated like there are other folks out there just like them. Within the group, they support each other and share their experiences and also learn about the greater LGBTQ equality movement, different activism campaigns and community resources and ways that they can become involved. And I think most importantly they have been learning more about their student rights here in California and are becoming ambassadors of that information to spread out to their peers in their school environment. I think our organization, the Diversity Center, in addition to what we're already doing can help make the community safer for LGBTQ youth by strengthening our partnerships with other community resources that are doing the same work and to continue to educate ourselves around the different laws that are in place regarding student rights. And I think just continuing to get the word out that there are a variety of different resources available in Santa Cruz County that are supporting and helping queer youth and doing great work to make the community safer. The first time in my life that I realized my queer identity I think would be in second grade we had to do a project where we drew what we wanted to be when we grew up and I drew a mermaid. So I think that was one of the early indicators. I also started then to only eat fish sticks because in my mind I thought that that would kind of help me get the ball rolling. My favorite movie is such a tough question so one of my favorite movies would have to be The Goonies because I think it's a really fun, exciting adventure story about a group of youth who all have different strengths and weaknesses and embrace each other's uniqueness and basically form this team that sets out to save their community. And so I definitely could say that that's one of my favorites. And I love pirates, the whole mermaid thing, pirates, you know it's all interconnected so. My favorite color is that color that the surface of the ocean turns right at sunset. It's kind of that like chrome, silvery, iridescent color. And I love that color because depending on how you look at it it has all the colors wrapped up inside of it and I think that's kind of a cool idea.