Name: Walter

Social Justice Group: Disabilities: Access to Education for Neurodiversity (A)

Date of Fieldwork: January 16, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Ever Ramirez

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

We walked into Ever’s office and he greeted us warmly. Immediately we were greeted with open arms and we jumped right in asking “What is your experience with individuals living with mental illnesses?” he answered and his answer segwayed into our next question and the flow of the interview.

One big takeaway I had was that change comes from the person. Almost like the saying “you can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” I think that is a very life lesson because people can’t do everything for you all the time and they can help but you need to help yourself as well.

In the end, he made a topic very challenging to talk about, not as sad as I was prepared for even cracking some jokes now and again and made the interview really engaging. I can’t thank him enough. I would recommend as an interview!