Our Dream of Going to the Model United Nations in Geneva Switzerland

1. Who We Are: We are a group of diverse and EMPOWERED city students who have traveled together in the past in order to spread a message of social justice, love, acceptance and change in the world.  Last year we traveled to Santa Rosa High School where we presented who we are and our stories to over 1,000 of our peers/students at the school read about us here at this NEA article: Empowered city students take diversity on the road A Brief Video Introduction: We are: Yadira Del Valle: I am a Chicana born and raised in San Francisco. I grew up in the Mission District where Latinx Culture is valued. Being in the Mission is difficult, there was a lot of gang violence which has been going down due to the fact that many people of low income are being displaced thanks to gentrification. My classmates and I got to travel to Santa Rosa to do a presentation which informed them on gentrification and other issues such as Islamophobia and homophobia all which we learned fr