my name is leah white, but i am known as leah parks because i still do photography under that name and that's how i earned that. my early life of san francisco, i was born and raised here and i am so proud to be from san francisco. i went to rooftop elementary school, who had an amazing arts program and i'm also committed to diversity. i got into rooftop because of i'm half filipino and half jewish and they needed more filipino students to come to the school so i was able to get into that program. you can imagine what 24th street was like in that time period and i was a having a blast, much to my parents' dismay. eventually it got me sent to an alternative correctional facility in new mexico. i was away for a year and a half in a drug detox program, when i was 17 years old. i came back and i started city college and started studying criminal justice because prior to getting sent away, i was a part of youth moments here . it was called third eye movement. we were committed to fighting against gang violence, the juvenile initiative, where we saw a lot of doingness come out our high schoo