Do you feel like your parents have a hard time finding jobs around this community area or like how do you feel about it?

So, my dad is a taxi driver so he's not employed around this area. I think that probably means he works for himself. But, my mother, she's unemployed because she has younger, she has my younger siblings to take care of, but like, me, to find a job around here I think is kind of difficult.

Would you say like it's more difficult for even, uneducated people, or like, for the educated people?

I think it's more difficult for uneducated people to get a job around here, because, thinking about it, there's people that work here that are in the City Heights neighborhood that are teachers, they're doctors, they're, yeah, thinking about it from that perspective, to get a job that needs a degree it would be hard to get it around here but working at a fast food restaurant, you don't really need a degree, and there's a lot in the City Heights neighborhood, so it would probably be easier to get a job that way, if you're trying to work in fast food.

And do you feel like you have to be someone else to be around this community area?

No. I like this community because you don't have to be someone else, you can be yourself because it's such a diverse community that you get to hang around people that are, you know, the same ethnicity as you, that share the same interests as you, and you get to, even if they're not the same ethnicity as you, you get to know people from other races and you get to share interests with them, and you know, become friends with them, so you get to be yourself around everyone in this community.

How would you describe City Heights to someone who has never been over here?

I would tell them that it's a place that's really diverse and there's people that come from all around the world that come here to live and come here to live with their families, and you know, it's like a place that you can call your home and a place that people are always trying to get change to, and people always want to see improvements, and you know, we have these community volunteer programs where students get involved, where they can initiate change.

What are the community organizations that students can get involved in?

Currently, for me, I'm involved in Mid-City CAN, which is located on, [pause] yeah currently I'm involved in an organization called Mid-City CAN, and they help us with a club at my school called the social food justice club and we got to see a new food menu go on our list and next year we're trying to get another healthier food menu on our list as well, and there are other organizations such as the Somali Family Services, which we hosted events with like Mid-City CAN, and we worked in collaboration with them to help them improve the community.

What are the changes that you have seen in the past and now, like, in this community?

Recently, for the program I'm doing with the Social Food Justice, we got the halal chicken passed, last year, and this year, we went to the school board to tell them about how we wanted it to have an extension and how we wanted to keep it as a food menu, and they were really, the whole community came out and they saw that we were really supporting it so they extended it, and then we're still working on getting the new food menu on the list such as the fish tacos, so I think that's something we're going to work in collaboration with like everyone around us to help get to.

Thank you.