Mary is a creative, brilliant, and friendly youth who has been an adovcate for LGBTQ youth like herself for the majority of her life. She has faced multiple barriers to being accepted and celebrated for her identity throughout her journey of navigating a failed adoption and later reentry into the foster care system .Despite the constant barriers she has encountered , she remains proud in who she is and where she will go with her future. She dreams of being a fashion designer or cosmetologist and living in a community where she can be fully embraced for who she is.