This powerful Poem is written and performed by Changing the Narrative Podcaster Jonathan Zeno with a beautiful sound design by Daniel P. Castillo. 

It will be featrured in the upcoming episode of Changing the Narrative entitled "Wanting to Live." This episode centers around Paul Terry's interview with advocates Derek Steele and David Turner about mental health in communites of color.

Produced by Betsy Foldes Meiman 

created in a summer program collaboration of Connectopod and the Social Justice Learning Institute funded in part by a generous media arts grant from the California Arts Council, a state agency. Find out more at arts.ca.gov

curriculum created and taught by Andrea Lopez, Daniel P. Castillo, and Betsy Foldes Meiman