Katie Emanuel is senior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco California Katie has always been interested in activism and sender dymamics, but recent years have found her looking more at how her peers interact with each other, and how the world interacts with her peers. Katie has observed a culture that appropriates the contributions of teenage girls while disregarding the sources a society that invalidated passions, diminished esteemg and instilled in these girls a pervasive strain of internalized misogyny. A statement from Katie: "I hope this talk can shed some light on that phenomenon and reveal some way we can stand together to support a demeaned demographic.