Erzsabet Gonzalez hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently a senior in high school and enjoys the performing arts, photography, and writing. She was a member of the 2019-2020 Youth Speaks SPOKES Youth Advisory Board, working directly with Youth Speaks on curating and hosting open mics, powering large events like Life is Living, and building community with the SPOKES Cohort. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Upfront Magazine and Youth Speaks’ Between My Body and the Air, a youth poetry anthology curated in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the nationwide uprisings in defense of black lives.