YouthSpeaks, a youth literacy and creating writing organizatiaon, partnered with UCSF, one of the nation’s leading medical centers, for “The Bigger Picture” project.

The Bigger Picture Project calls on young writers to use their poetry skills to raise awareness and speak out against type 2 diabetes, climate change, police violence, and other violences that disproportionately impact our communities. I was asked to create a piece that raised awareness around the COVID vaccine for communities of color, specifically Black communities.