Being part of a diverse community has allowed me to show others that I am more than my skin color. When we show up and speak out, our presence carries power. We need to see each other as neighbors, not just numbers. True change isn’t handed down—it’s co-created.

I was shocked and horrified in the fall of 2019, when a photograph of senior high school boys appearing to give the Nazi salute went viral.

In the years just prior to this there had been a growing number of violent white nationalist rallies with a lot of hate speech directed at Jewish people and people of color.