Elysa Caso-McHugh is a first-year student at Barnard College, as a future comparative literature and political science major. She has been involved in various spoken word events at her school, as well as has been published in Spectrum Literary Magazine, and performing with Carlos Andres Gomez. She is an IB Diploma Recipient. As a queer activist running her own feminist Instagram page, she is hoping that her work reaches people and allows them to see the world through a different lens than their own.