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This blog post originally appeared in the December 2018 issue of Echo Magazine as part of the magazine's "We The People" column.

As Congress takes historic measures to reform our criminal justice system, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is seizing upon this moment to push myths that created Arizona’s mass incarceration crisis in the first place.

Glendale Union denied me and countless others the opportunity to get an education and be a part of my community. Now, these changes will help young people avoid this discrimination in the future.

This blog post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue of Echo Magazine as part of the magazine's "We The People" column.

I was arrested while exercising my First Amendment rights. Then, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office mistreated me and highlighted the urgent need for law enforcement to put policies in place to protect transgender Arizonans.

While public charter schools pilfer Arizona tax dollars, students, especially children of color, children with disabilities and English Language Learners, are pushed out of the classroom on a daily basis.

An Arizona appeals court decision threatens to make a life-saving medicine illegal. The ACLU of Arizona filed a brief last week asking the Arizona Supreme Court to review the case and stop this from happening.

This year, Arizonans will decide between two candidates for Secretary of State with very different views on how to run our elections.

The force and behavior that Phoenix police exhibited that night still shocks me. I never expected to be treated with such violence for exercising my First Amendment rights. We were gassed and I was senselessly shot with projectiles.