Our identity and experiences shape how we see the world - Our opinions, beliefs, and values. Knowing who we are can help us to understand our place in the world.

We have many social identities:

• Socioeconomic Status
• Spiritual Beliefs*
• Ethnicity
• Sexual Orientation
• Gender Identity*
• Racial Identity
• Cultural Identity

These social identities as well as our lived experiences can sometimes create disadvantages (barriers) for some people, and these barriers are sometimes invisible to those who are not affected by them.

Knowing who we are helps us to recognize the barriers we do not face, but others do, and how we can work together to dismantle those barriers for the benefit of all.

*Some people do not have spiritual beliefs and others do not identify with a gender (agender folx).