Growing up on the Lower East Side I was able to experience first handedly, the deficits that kids like me have to face going to school. The High School I attended had a student body of only 300 and 60 senior but with only a graduating class of 20. Through non-profit program however I was able to travel to Honduras and volunteer at a summer camp, and boom my love and desire to teach children was found. I saw the kind of poverty the kids were living under, but one of the biggest things that surprised me was their love for learning. I realized that it was not much of a different story back in New York. Later on when I started working in schools all over New York City I saw that children just need a good structure to blossom and grown from. I want to become a teacher who aids my students growth through exploration of the arts. All in all I am a passionate artist striving to one day establish a non-for profit with the mission of empowering children by creating meaningful art.