In this photo, I am standing with several performers and audience members, after a benefit variety show for the Morgan Harper for Congress campaign. Of all my experiences in college and all the activities in which I have been involved, this was perhaps one of the most significant to me personally; in collaboration with the staff of a campaign that was getting significant national attention, I helped to organize and stage a show for someone who gave me a great amount of hope for the future of my community. In fact, the show may be most significant in that it made me hopeful for the future and made me feel as though I was personally helping to effect some change within the community. As a younger person who will graduate with heaps of student debt into a world that will almost certainly be racked with crises, I realized through this show that, for the benefit of people in a similar position to me and in less privileged positions than my own, I have some duty to participate in change. I cannot wait for more people like Morgan Harper to appear and forward solutions; instead, I should participate in forwarding those solutions myself.