I wrote the essay because watching President Trump’s various executive orders banning Muslims from entering the country and rounding up and deporting Mexicans and was making me feel scared and angry. While my essay considered the importance of courageous community action, the essays I read from the YES! He’s doing that by creating a community of support, a particular version of standing up for his neighbors. When Adithi Ramakrishnan felt her “otherness” in a visceral and public moment of racial discrimination, her response was personal. You have broadened my own understanding of what it means to stand up to oppression.