Hi everyone! My name is Yasmin Elliott (she/her), and I am a second-year master’s student in the School and Applied Child Psychology program. I grew up in a small town outside of Toronto and moved to B.C. three years ago after completing my undergraduate degree in Psychology and Family & Child Studies at the University of Guelph. Before starting at UBC, I worked with children, youth, and families across B.C. as both a behaviour interventionist at a private clinic and a student intake clinician at Victoria Child Youth Mental Health. These experiences, together with my identity as a biracial woman, deepened my commitment to supporting diverse communities and strengthened my passion for equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization in research and practice. My master’s thesis explores the school integration experiences of newcomer youth through an arts-based engagement ethnography coupled with a critical social justice lens. Through this work, I hope to highlight newcomer youth voices, which are often underrepresented in academic scholarship, and contribute to the development more inclusive and culturally responsive practices in psychology and education. Some advice I would give to my pre-grad school self: pace yourself! Graduate school is a marathon, not a sprint. Trust yourself, think critically, and enjoy all the new learning and opportunities.