I am pursuing a degree in American Sign Language/ English Interpreting, this career path puts me in the Deaf community as someone to help with the communication barrier. Hearing people sometimes have a tendency to think themselves better than Deaf people, they tend to have a bias that Deaf people are less intelligent than hearing people as the communication barrier can make it difficult to understand one another. As an interpreter I hope that I will be able to combat this issue by not only helping to lessen the communication barrier itself, but also educating hearing people in hopes of lessening the bias and therefore lessening the mistreatment of Deaf individuals and their community as a whole. While still in college finishing my degree so I can start working on that social issue, I am currently working on another. I work as a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT), currently which is a field that involves working with individuals with autism to help them learn anything from how to get dressed independetly to complex social cues. In this field I interact with people on the spectrum in all different ranges and work towards many different goals to make the world and independece seem less scary and more achieveable. I grew up with a younger sister with autism as well as being non-verbal, I have witnessed how society treats people who are different or don't communicate the same. I hope that as an RBT I will not only help individuals build the confidence they need to stand up for themselves, but also educate those around me in life and in my community to treat everyone with the same respect they wish to be treated with. As a person who has witnessed first hand how unfairly individuals that are different can be treated I aim to make sure this happens less and less to hopefully not happening at all. If an opportunity in the future opens up to where I could be a public speaker on the matter, or in anyway help educate those who are unfamiliar with disabilites, how they work, and how people with them should be treated I would love to take it and educate as far as I can. I want to be able to help as many people I can across as many states or even countries as possible. Making the world a more fair place for everyone, no matter the disability or difference, is an important life goal of mine.