In this world today, people are forced to deal with the many battles that transpire over the tone of one's skin color, one's gender, one's cultural prescence and political standpoints in their place of work. Someone shouldn't have to surround themselves in a hostile environment to just financially support one's self or family. The workforce shouldn't be a place of oppression and inconvenience just because of who you are or how you look. The nature of categorizing someone by their race, class, or gender should not be at its core in the workforce. Many look past intersectionality in the workforce or theorize its very existence. Quite the opposite of being downsized to a theory, intersectionality in the workforce is a very true and dehumanizing action that takes place every day around the world. A social identity should not be a cause for inhibition and oppression at work. Addressing these challenges is the first step to condemning this unruly actuality in the workforce. To begin, if I were someone who faced these challenges that arose because of intersectionality in the workforce, I would speak up and demand attention from my fellow colleagues about the ongoing oppression that exists at our job. By doing this, it brings attention to the intersectionality, and cautions the managers and higher employers that their wrongdoings are being noticed and will not be further ignored. I would stop and report conversations of prejudice and stereotypes. I would contact media platforms and news stations, further bringing light to this depressing situation. Also in accordance to this I would become a beacon of change for the workforce, signaling that it can no longer tolerate and allow the exploitation and categorization of people in their gender, race, or class. In addition, I would create a support group which contained people from my place of work willing to fight these challenges. Connecting with people who are not only like-minded, but are also experiencing these same challenges helps to gain a sense of solidarity. Feeling unified against these challenges helps to combat these problems in the workforce and demand change. In the 1900s, many strikes were held by industrial workers against factories whom of which allowed dangerous working conditions and low or differentiated pay amongst workers, who were diversified in race and gender. With their joining of unity and support they were able to combat these conditions and better their work environment. Like these people, it can happen again, fighting to ensure a more fair and less discriminatory environment in the workforce.

Before I get into what I am most passionate about, I must give reason to what this passion spurred from. Hi my name is Caidence, and I feel most inspired by my grandmother, the light in my heart, the woman that I share my very own birthday with, a woman with unthinkable intellectual ability, a woman who set records in history, and also a woman with bi-polar disorder and schizophrenic episodes. My grandmother, Julie Martin, was one of the first black women to graduate from The University of Southern Mississippi and their nursing program. My grandmother was first diagnosed with these neurological diseases around 20 years old. She would have episodes, some worst than others, but she could always separate her disorders from work. See she never acted out on her coworkers and her patients, she was just Nurse Martin. This separation could be seen as her living two different lives, one where she was seemingly normal and one where she was fighting a fierce battle in her mind. Today I am tremendously proud to say that my grandma has won this battle. She is not the same woman having episodes and speaking in rage and incoherently to others. She isn't split into two anymore, and with this progress she has been called upon for jobs of mentoring upcoming nurses and overseeing them in the hospital. Although, she suffered with something incomparable to others, she didn't let it overtake her life, instead, she faced it and all its trials, and came out on top. She is my inspiration and leading factor in why I am so invested in the workings of the mind. To begin, I am most passionate about others and their neurological and psychological processes in their mind. The questions that drive my curiosity into these endless depths are why we do the things we do under our own influence and why our minds are so different and operate at its own rhythm. What interests me is how unique every person is on this 7 billion person populated earth. I find myself more interested in murder documentaries, not because of the goriness but because of the intentions or purpose that the killers had to commit those acts. I like to dive down into the experiences of these people, be it past trauma in their childhood, a supernatural will, or just plain violence in which caused them to want to invoke hurt on people. I believe there is a reason for every action, every word, and every push or pull in our life. This all rains down from our most crucial, most vulnerable part of our body, the mind. The mind possesses many things that we need in order for our body to function, most are accompanied with disorders, or buried down hurt that influence many decisions that we make. I want to dive into these inner workings of peoples' minds, and help them to overcome them. Continuing, I plan to go to college, majoring in biology and psychology, get my bachelor's and medical degree and intern at a workplace that allows me to experience patients who battle with their mind daily, and see the atmosphere in which they go to receive help, one day being the helper of those people. Concluding, I struggled with anxiety, to the point where it affected everything in my life, and although my mind would tell me I wasn't good enough or people will mock you if you make one mistake, with my faith in God I am slowly learning to not degrade myself and not instill fear where fear has no place.

It's the last inning, stands filled, 2 outs, 2 runners on, and my team down 6-3, my coach looks at me, "Caidence get your bat you're going in". My thoughts were not letting my team or my dad down. I'd just come from a back injury and this would be my first live-at bat. The count is 3 balls and 2 strikes. I am either going to get walked or struck out, the next pitch comes. And BAM! I hit a shot to the fence, the crowd goes wild, the two runs score, I give my team a fighting chance.