I am a proud disabled Queer Indigenous Taína and Kinh Vietnamese woman, who has had to grapple with and reconcile the intersections of my identities. Throughout my childhood, I felt uncomfortable with my identity and my mental health struggles were often dismissed. As a young adult, I now fully choose to embrace my intersectionality. I deserve to feel safe in my right to express myself without fearing that I will be judged. I fight for a world where we collectively achieve liberation and harmony. Through activism in my communities, I can only hope such efforts help future generations grow up in a world where they feel loved and free. I have dedicated my life to my healing and the healing of other people. Since high school, I have been a youth mental health advocate, offering guidance and resources to peers in communities impacted by racism, discrimination, and ultimately, lack of services. As someone with lived mental health struggles, I have used my experiences to create something hopeful for those in our community by amplifying free and simple access to information and resources that supports diverse needs. I hope to become a reliable pillar of emotional and tangible support for our community and a meaningful engine for revolutionary change. With a college education, I plan to pursue a path in which I can directly support the accessibility and mental health needs of community members. I want to fight mental health stigmatization. Youth mental health care is especially important to me because this is the mental health of future leaders who are preparing to face the greatest problems of our time. At the University of Miami, I am a major in psychology. I want to change the way mental health is poorly addressed. I am deeply committed to mental health equity and I continue to educate myself to better understand the barriers marginalized communities face. My work centers accessibility and visibility. Most people in the recovery and harm reduction world come into this work with a dream and our own personal stories in hopes that other people do not have to experience what we went through. The work we do is for the people by the people to create and fill that lack. In my own organizations, we serve delicate communities, specifically Black and Brown communities. A majority of our organization’s members have been incarcerated before, have gone through multiple steps of recovery, surviving overdose, rehabilitation, or experienced a mental health crisis. Still, we are here, creating something for those in our community who may not have access to services to make sure they stay alive to see another day and create a new life for themselves. Harm reduction is more than just the tools. Harm reduction is intertwined with the broader fight to abolish harm in healthcare, policy, and education. With the knowledge each of us carry, we are breaking barriers through our services and facilitating education for our community to have the opportunity to survive. What our community needs now is leadership from our new generation of activists. I intend to bring all my growing knowledge from my activism in Pittsburgh and Miami to everywhere I go in hopes of my work becoming a wider influence that creates lasting impacts for our community. I will continue to fight for our future and collective healing. We are all a family when we are speaking life into each other and not tearing each other down. I will do my best to work cooperatively, honestly, and in support of those I work with in the mental health field to achieve our mutual goals.