In particular, how do gangs affect girls and young women?
Girls need to know that they are not the guys’ little puppets. That is how they get introduced, by being sexual objects, and they wind up controlled and abused. They need to learn to respect themselves and their bodies, that they are somebody and that they can have goals and achieve those goals. A lot of them are looking for love and they end up thinking they’re getting love, but they’re not. Now, girls have their own gangs and they are very violent because they are competing with the guys. It’s not happening here yet and I don’t want it to happen. 7. Who was your role model as a kid — or as an adult, for that matter? I had a supervisor in my internship and when I started working at Juvenile Hall and the Probation Department in Riverside who guided me a lot. He was like my dad. He was a very compassionate person. He was my role model. As I learned more, I think I looked at Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez. I grew up with Cesar Chavez, I followed him a lot in the marc
