>> So I went to Pomona College and I was studying,
I could create my own major at Pomona, which was fantastic.
And my major was in public policy and human sexuality.
I was studying it because that's what I'd been passionate
about since age 16 was issues around human sexuality.
I was particularly interested in sex education policy.
And my college thesis was on the distribution of condoms in California prisons and jails.
So I grew up in San Francisco during the HIV epidemic on Castro Street.
So growing up my city was kind of dying around me.
It was sort of a issue that I was very aware of from an early age.
Then I went into teaching sex ed and worked with all of these young people who were amazing,
but they were taking all of these risks
that they didn't really realize what the consequences would be.
And so I became very passionate about the issue of health education.
As I grew into my teens and twenties I realized more and more that the issues
that were also personally affecting me
and personally affecting my friends tended to be human sexuality related.
They were related to our sexual health and wellbeing.
And when we looked for support on those issues often we couldn't find it
because of just how stigmatized those topics were
and just how few resources were out there to help support us.