okay so my name is that the rents and I apologize if there's a glare on my glasses at all and I mean tell you little bit about myself so again my name is Bethany rinsed and I'm currently a second year graduate student in the education leadership and departments are educational leadership and policy department yuppie at the university of Utah and I'm really enjoying it I have to students there I enjoy doing many many many different things so currently I like using the classes with my friends I like to sing for fun I have an interest in fashion and learning about fashion and trying to expand my personal style I appreciate traveling so I've only been able to travel to countries South Korea and Japan but I've really enjoyed being able to do so and I'd love to go back again I have passion for meeting folks from different cultures and things like that and I like as super hero movies I lay in pop music keep pop music and also a lot of other pop music I consider myself an equal opportunity pop music fan and I also appreciate reading a lot many different things but particularly in the contemporary novels fantasy novels and non fiction particularly with a global lands and and I like to dance so part of being doing but I also like to dance though when I was in high school and for example I was involved in a lot of jazz dance classes lyrical dance group as well as color guard to the marching band and and in undergrad I was involved in a lot of things have to do with my passions as well so currently at the university of Utah and the graduate assistant for the LGBT resource center in the student union on the fourth floor and I have a humongous passion or queer and trans rights issues people in general and not just in the United States but also internationally as well so I have a really big passion for learning about queer and trans folks and and about how we can all expand our word is on that and what are the cultural nuances within that things like that and so in my undergrad I was involved in a lot of these things that are related to my current passion project so in undergrad I was our Anne for two years I'm in one of those years was on an international student war where I met several students the majority of my international students there were south Korean which the large and contributing factor to why cited study abroad in South Korea in my junior year of undergrad for a semester and I loved it there I got to stay with a host family it was wonderful also all four years my undergrad I was involved in our diversity and multicultural student organizations such as that queer and trans people color Cutie pop group of the prime alliance which I held leadership roles in the gender Bella club because identifies age gender and I forgot to use my problems at the beginning of this but I use either they or she although they urge and and I was able to be involved in our LGBT efforts not just on campus in my undergrad in university second Stockton California but also off campus I'm instructing community and in the greater Sacramento area I'll also in undergrad I was a global studies major at the economics minor and so I got you through that need a lot of other people who had a passion for international and global mindset in perspective and being up to date on global news and cultures and just kind of trying to remember and you know that the United States and what we might consider American culture is very mixed it has many different influences and it's also not the only way or the best way and do things I'm really passionate about that and then I was also involved in now as a NASCAR undergraduate solo in undergrad as well which I really appreciated and they're not often through being in our a for two years I was able to then learn about the field of student affairs which is where I want to work forever so I would like to work in a college for at least a possible future but perhaps the rest of my working career

okay so the next question is what is my educational background so my educational background a crew to decorate kind of explain a little bit of in the last question this bit disorganized apologies but I'm my educational background so I went through case you're twelve in Sacramento California in the suburb of that area I enjoyed it it was great and then I moved straight from high school into undergrad at the university of the Pacific in Stockton California which is a small private four year liberal arts college and university and I really really love my time there so we have a small population of five thousand total undergrad and grad students I'm I lived on campus all four years there mostly because I was able to be in our a arms for two of them and I was gone for half and half of the year my junior year in Korea but I love being able to be involved on campus I'm going to a small private school and then also being within a small school within that the global studies are on the school International Studies and I was a global studies major being within that small school inside of a small university I thought I really got to know everyone there and I had and ease of involvement so there were never us shortages of things for me to do you as a student so I was able to get involved in many many many different areas of student affairs and campus involvement in campus life and then from there I in junior year I was starting to learn about okay so my residence director my supervisor as an army you know he's starting soon if there is what is that and I looked more into it and then I realized that I could join now for the nasco undergraduate fellows program because identify is under represented in terms of both my multiracial identity as well as my trans identities and I felt that it was a really good experience with your joining that I was able to be mentored by graduate students at the university of the Pacific who helped me to understand students there is a field more and to encourage me along the path the process of applying for graduate school in my senior year so I applied to five different graduate schools and university of Utah was my favorite I visited a preview days in March twenty seventeen I loved it I got an interview with the LGBT resource center and I loved the L. G. B. T. resource center staff and I really really wanted to work there I arrange them first they rank me first so we were able to match together so that's where I work now I'm in my second year and I'm still really appreciating this universe her program and my whole Cold War as well and I'm really glad that I chose the university of Utah so that it's also close to my home

or okay and so I have a lot of passion in this next question what are my passions a web forms that also again ties into the things that I talked about so far my passions are learning about how to connect across multiple identities so I identify as multiracial but I was adopted into a white family from birth either identifies current trends but I come from a family that is very conservative I am not religious but I was raised religious and all these things meld together to make me someone who is very different from the background I came from but also understands where that perspective is from so I have a passion for connecting across difference I find it very interesting to have conversations with folks who are different than me I really loved learning people stories of people narrative I think that the most powerful thing in the world is a person's story and narrative willfully shared and non you know where is to clean and soon to in a way that's in a respectful the person's story and so I have a passion for learning about people from all walks of life I have a passion for music I have a passion for dance I have a passion for language all of these things I think are part of that you know passion for learning people's narratives and stories I think music and dance are just ways that people express their stories and language to you and because there are things that you cannot say in just one language and you really have to understand the nuance of another language and the culture that informs that language in order to really understand that story and I also have a passion for queer and trans people particularly clear entrance people of color and because we are under represented but we are wonderful amazing people that are doing so much good in the world and have a lot to offer especially a perspective on life and a re framing of the things that we think that we might have to be in this world of the things that we might have to do and in reality we don't have to do as much as you know the world says that we have to in these specific areas so we can challenge that we can re frame that we can kind of push back at the boundaries of the world as queer and trans folks and also educate people who may consider themselves allies in this arena as well so I have a passion for being around those folks and I have a passion for fashion so back to that and I really think and that life is too short to wear boring clothes actually have a sign in my bedroom right over there that says that which is a small thing but I really find joy every day in town you myself to be outside the box with my fashion and to try new things I'm in new ways of expressing again like these different facets of our souls I think they were all much more complex than meets the eye and I hope that as a mentor I would be able to with students kind of learn your story and see more about you is who you are and then also get to know the intricacies those unique pieces where can we connect what can I learn and what can I teach you Ammons I'm really excited to be part of this program