Sydney Jackson is a college student from Philadelphia, PA, who relocated to San Mateo in 2016. She is a junior at San Francisco State University, majoring in history and minoring in Africana studies. Even though she has never lived in East Palo Alto, everyone who has made the Bay Area feel like home to her lives there. She has spent a lot of time in EPA and it is where she has family and support. As a history major and huge EPA supporter, this project is very important to her and she is very excited to be working on it.