Collaborating with The Creative Process on curation, I am helping to celebrate the educational and creative community of Boston University with a special focus on gender, sexuality, and activism. I have served as the President of BU's Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism, the only student-run facility on campus. As President, I have built programs, managed external events, and organized workshops to cross-train members of the community and reach out effectively to those in need. The Center has over four-hundred student volunteers and alumni, and so it's a great opportunity to celebrate their voices and creative works as part of exhibitions traveling to other universities and communities. I am also looking forward to taking part in podcasts and sharing my poetry alongside the work of other writers, artists, and activists.

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In high school, our school was lucky enough to have funding for a student-run literary magazine. Being a poet, I was curious about contributing, but after attending the wrong meeting one day, I found that I was also extremely interested in curating art pieces from students for the magazine, as well as learning Adobe InDesign and actually building the magazine. I worked with our student magazine (zephyr) for two years, both as the layout editor and the editor-in-chief. It was a really moving experience because I got to see more sides of a creative process that I could've otherwise taken for granted. Now, I am so much more open to learning about all of what it takes to put together a collaborative piece, whether it be a showcase or publication. Along with this, having the responsibility of editor-in-chief during my senior year taught me that I crave roles in which I can exceed expectations and teach others so they may be successful as well. I have always been interested in writing as the core from which other creative disciplines stem. I've been expanding my writing to be more self-involved and reflective, pushing myself to write more pieces about my experience with race and gender and the intersection of POC and sexuality. I'm currently in the second draft stage of a book of poems I hope to release in February.