Zoey Giesberg, FACT Intern & Future MSW Holidays and celebrations have always come with some baggage for me. I would start uncontrollably sobbing whenever a birthday cake with lit candles was brought out at parties and fights with siblings would always happen at any family gathering when I was a child. I have thankfully stopped being terrified at birthday cake candles (now made ironic by my undying love of scented candles), but family gatherings still make me tense up and…
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Zoey Giesberg, FACT Intern & Future MSW There are many things people don’t seem to believe about me when I first meet them. Let me break it down into the most common comments I receive: 1.You’re born and raised in Los Angeles? No way! (Because an educated white girl and being a native Angeleno is apparently not possible?) 2.You’re 27? No way! You look so much younger! 3.You’re autistic? No way! You don’t seem like it at all! This last…
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Zoey Giesberg, FACT Intern & Future MSW As the 2014-2015 school year begins, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the newest staff intern at FACT. Here are some basic facts (insert awkward laughing here) about me: I am 27 years old and a West Los Angeles native I am wrapping up my Masters of Social Work degree at the University of Southern California with an emphasis on community organizing, planning, and administration I got my…
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