 My name is Angel LVR Langley. I also go by Muneca. Right now I'm a dance teaching artist and I perform and I battle and I organize. I enrolled into Highline 2011 and then I graduated here 2013 and my involvement included participating at like the Center for Leadership and Service and so it was a graphic designer there but of course like more than that like just helping a lot of the student clubs with like social media how to promote like and also attending all those like really dope workshops that CLS like helps provide with the help of the student body. So what I've done recently actually is I started this installation that just happened at Fred Wildlife Refuge called Bastos which means entogalog. It means rude or disrespectful and it's something I heard my mom calling me growing up and the project was about experience what are the Filipino American experiences especially for children of you know our parents who immigrated here and it was in a space that is in Capp Hill and we had a video on this big infinity wall and I just I've never seen like a Filipino person on a big infinity wall ever in that space so it's sort of like how am I taking up space like how can I take space another project I'm doing is what's popping ladies um so I'm a I'm a popper well I aspire to be like a better popper than I am now popping especially like I did not grow up with uh popping like female role models for the style in fact the first time I saw a female popper I didn't even recognize it as popping because the way they approached the dance was so different than how I've seen it and I've just never saw it on a femme body ever and after that I was like oh yeah I'm definitely gonna go for it then but nowhere in Seattle is there like a woman mentor for me for popping I don't see female poppers invited to battles very often um a lot of the times battles are organized by men MC'd by men DJ'd by men the invitees are men the people I'm battling are men and so the idea is just to bridge and connect female poppers together to strengthen that community and to create a platform for them to share their stories and being like positions of power that they usually aren't in which is like teaching being showcased being invited judging and seeing like um it's just like a different way of organizing and I just want wanted to present that Highline gave me this gift of really being unapologetic and being fierce and really this gift of self-reflecting and being really critical about the world and I think going you know later than going to another institution and seeing how that didn't serve me in the same ways Highline did really like woke me up to oh Highline really gave more more like above and beyond of any other education institution that I've ever been to