My name is Giselle but i preferred to be called Gee professionally speaking i am currently a Case Manager at a homeless shelter for youth I just began this professional journey. Prior to that I worked 8 years in youth development. I began as an intern and was promoted as a youth counselor then a member ship coordinator finally a program coordinator and briefly held the title of interim director. Now that I am older i prefer to experience different places during my leisure time and i like nature. My pronouns are she /her. I have always been interested in women throughout history and otherwise especially women that influenced rebellions. Women liberators and revolutionaries. I am a lot of things but i feel my most prominent experience has been that of a woman. Broadening my experience is that i present as masculine. I am taking this class to gain knowledge and understand women with different experiences. I am involved in social justice and I dislike people who are indifferent or participate in other people’s suffering, math and heights, I’m also not a fan of sharks. I am interested in getting a degree in psychology or social work to continue working with young people and supporting their growth. I was born and raised in Brooklyn and my father migrated here from Puerto Rico as my mother from Colombia. I value community and believe in a collective society and living by my own set of morals. I also value peoples freedom and individuality, i hope to one day own my own non-profit. Things that i enjoy to do is listen to all types of music but country music, I am not fond of that genre. I also enjoy different art mediums like poetry and dance. I believe that people learn the most through experience and that is where they are able to empathize with others that may be experiencing the same things and people who have been oppressed throughout history have been put at a number of disadvantages . I am an only child born to a Latino household and with all the expectations and stigmas for the women in Latin household any type of freedom I had to challenge norms for and that made me and my parents at odds for a long time. It also made things hard on me but in the end shaped who I am. I am excited to see what we will learn in this class and how i can apply it to my life and experiences.