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Angela Gonzalez 

Cover Art Photograph & poem "I know I’ll be OK"

When I look in the mirror at night
And I see I turned out just fine
I know I’ll be OK
Perfect in my own way
Healing at my own pace
 
I think about those vending machine dinners
And orange suits
Long drives up to Tehachapi 
Being patted down
And talked down to
 
Still, I got myself together 
Grew up in some shelters
Now, a daughter of a deportee
Straight A’s and no B’s
When they thought I wouldn’t amount to anything
 
I believed it for a minute
Until my parents informed me:
I can be whatever I want to be
It’s all happening
 

Angela's a PCC student, a writer, tutor, activist, etc.. She aspires to be a lawyer and aspires to encourage personal evolution + collective advocacy.