I do hope to inspire, I mean I live off inspiration and its the force that keeps me working, that keeps me creating.

Its a wonderful feeling to be able to inspire back, to keep that flow going.

My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights.

Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone.

To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

I do hope to inspire, I mean I live off inspiration and its the force that keeps me working, that keeps me creating.

Being Latina in the US is something I'm learning about everyday. I don't feel inherently different in any way from anybody else and it is a feeling I cherish and that has helped me avoid thinking of my ethnicity as a potential obstacle from what I want to achieve.