Allisa Jones, founder of Survivors with Voices in Texas By-Allisa Jones There comes a time where you look at your life and truly digest your past along with all the things you’ve been through, and decide that your past doesn’t have to dictate your future. For many years I was silenced by fear […]

    By Anonymous I’m a 32 year old Asian female.  I grew up in Oakland most of my life and have experienced so many tragic things in my life. I experienced the loss of friends and family at an early age, the lack of opportunity growing up in a low income family.  I have […]

By Agnes Pahulu Let’s start off with why I’m good. I’m alive, I’m blessed with a great family that supports me and they continue to encourage me to strive for the best, in whatever it is that I do, and I’ve gained confidence in myself to block out negative thoughts that tell me otherwise. Like a […]

By Kacy Walker I’m good! I’m good because I keep my head up everyday even when things seem like there not going the way I want. Somedays are harder than others and sometimes it seems like Im always battling the world and what is going on but I have family that I love and an […]

By Phat Ly I’m good. But I wasn’t always good. I have so many regrets about my younger years that at any moment I can feel angry or sad just by seeing or hearing something that reminded me of an awful time. My father passed away, and at his funeral I was almost happy he left. […]

Darick John B. De Leon is a student at CSU East Bay by Darick John B. De Leon             I am very good. I am very good because I have a family that supports me, a girlfriend that loves me unconditionally, and friends that have my back. I am also very good because I recently started school […]