Alicia Gomez

At the time of the interview, Alicia Gomez was a Jackson Scholar who attended city council and town meetings and worked on a video project. Gomez is originally from New York and moved to Chapel Hill in 2009. Gomez attended Pace charter school after getting off-track academically. She speaks about the teaching styles that helped her academically and about the culture shock of moving from New York to North Carolina. She also sings one of her own songs on the recording before talking about her mixtape. Gomez wrote her first song when she was eight years old.