Name: Victoria Seitz

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 met with Ever Ramirez, our school counselor. During this interview we got the chance to know him better as a person and get to know our topic better. For example, we asked him what he thinks is a main cause of the rise in mental health. He stated that now awareness for mental health has risen. The rise in awareness has now resulted in more cases of mental health illnesses being found. It could also be how our world is getting very complicated at the moment.

Another thing we asked was, how does social media affect mental health? His answer was that though there isn’t much harm in it, if you spend too much time on it, it can. He also mentioned that on social media cyber bullying can come up a lot. People might feel less shame commenting online rather than saying it to a person’s face. If you do get cyber bullied it can lower your self esteem. Overall, this interview was very helpful and I am so grateful we got to interview Ever Ramirez.