I spent much of my adolescence and young adulthood working in grassroots organizing and social work to improve the quality of life for those from communities like mine. After much frustration with the status quo within these fields, and feeling that true change was not possible within the paradigms that they offered, I decided to approach social justice in my own way and through a different medium - art. What was in the past a way for me to deal with my personal frustrations, inner thoughts, and struggles, art is now a way for me to make bold statements and reimagine my world.