(upbeat digital music)
I was really interested
in pursuing anthropology in undergrad.
And so after doing that I discovered that Indiana Jones
is kind of the bad guy.
And that I wanted to be more of a hero.
So I just decided to find my own path through research
that could help people, was culturally relevant,
allowed me to travel, allowed me to discover things.
I have been awarded the Ada Lovelace Fellowship.
It is an award for second year PhD students
from minority backgrounds.
Being a disabled, transgender researcher,
it was excellent to be able to even be invited to Microsoft
and meet the nine other people who were in the running
for this very prestigious award.
And it's just like the coolest research being done
by people of color and queer people and disabled people
and it's just like this really really great group of people
who are my friends now,
who are not only doing brilliant research
but are doing brilliant activism work in academia
and in STEM fields.
That means the world to me
and I am so thankful to be a part of that group.
(low piano note) {University at Buffalo Fellowships and Scholarships}
