**Aslin Ester Tanco,** a Puerto Rican Chicago Native, Aslin began using digital scrapbooking and collage making as a way of processing her experiences with the world around her. She is completing her bachelor’s in English Literature and pursing a masters in Education with long term goals of reforming school systems and making an impact on prison reform initiatives. "Born and raised here, Chicago will always be the place I call home, acting as the cradle and grave of all the people I have been and all I will become."