Growing up in Richmond wasn't easy because you grow up surrounded in violence, oppression and tend to be discriminated at. I came to live to Richmond at the age of 7 when my family I moved here from Mexico.

   The HRYT is over after this week and I'm going to miss it along with working with all my co-workers who made this experience a blast! I know Jamileh must be jumping up and down of joy because she doesn't have to deal with us anymore! haha jk I…

   Last Saturday I attended the California Endownment meeting to give a youth perspective of what we want to change in Richmond. I don't really get why the adults say they want us to parcipate and have a voice in the saying. Yet when we do try and voice our…

   The retreat was a fun experience because I got to meet people from other groups like the Culture Keepers, MAC, the RYSE Portal, etc. It was also a very relaxing weekend, even though the bus did get stuck in someone's driveway on our way there ahaha. I got to play…

Everyone thinks that collecting surveys is an easy task but once you actually do it you see it’s not. It takes a lot of time, effort and patience when you are trying to collect surveys.  When we were collecting surveys the hardest part to do was getting people to take…