Anyone who thinks that policy, social welfare policy doesn't affect their lives or the lives of their clients is definitely not paying attention. When doing social services or providing any type of public benefit, it's never going to be without the context of the social policy. That's kind of determining how things get paid for and what's allowed, what's reported. I wanted to know how policies systems institutions and law apply and impact the lives of- intersect with the lives of people. There are students whose families experiencing homelessness, and there's some policies around that. They feel really important to know and be able to support the family with. I think working in a school you get to work with lots of different kids and families that are interacting with lots of different systems. Most of the kids that I see have an IEP, an Individual Education Plan which is a federally mandated document for student who need additional support. We're always looking for the least restrictive environment for the student, and that's something that's mandated through the federal policy on having an IEP. They work at an organization that provides a myriad of services in New York. Starting with street outreach and their main goal is to help individuals who are experiencing street homelessness to be placed into housing. My current role as the director of data services, we're looking at really a lot of the determinants of segregation and why we don't have truly inclusive fair housing and why creating deeply affordable units in the city is such a challenge. So, I work as the Assistant Director of Clinical Education and Innovation, at the NYU Silver School Social Work. My work is, it encompasses a number of buckets. One is, I do research, so we do poverty related research. The other is, I do a lot of training and technical assistance where I create and help to disseminate training for behavioral health providers across New York State. And the other one is that I coordinate research activities around inequality for faculty, from across the University. I worked as a mental health professional in a community agency. I felt that clinical work couldn't be done in a vacuum, and so it would be helpful to understand exactly what goes on when people are interacting with courts, with mental health services, health care, and also various systems of discrimination and how they play into policy and law. I do education around understanding what is sexual violence? How do we recognize it? How do we prevent it? By standard skills and consent education as well. Whether you're LGBTQ or a trans, or a person of color or coming from a Muslim background or Buddhists background, it can be really difficult to find services that feel appropriate and culturally humble and sensitive in a way that they can actually find healing, whatever that means for that survivors. So, I think we tend to silo gender-based violence as its own category, and in some ways, it is, but our policies shape whether or not they can even access services. So, i think it's just one of the reasons why we have to keep paying attention and keep really plugged into the systems.