As a future educator I am committed to creating individualized and meaningful teaching experiences for each of my students. I am a recent graduate from the University of Maryland and am working in the interim between no and when my graduate program starts in the fall. I plan to be a high school art teacher as I find that art lends itself to the more difficult subjects to breach including social issues. By opening up these conversations and teaching students to remain open minded during them I hope to shape the next generation into critically thinking empathetic members of our community.