Lilly Rice is a rising junior from Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated high school in 2020 and is currently attending Colby College in Maine, where she is double majoring in psychology and anthropology. As an anthropology major, her area of focus is Justice and Liberation. In the past, she has worked in many types of education settings, such as summer school, after-school tutoring, and daycare. She currently works in a pottery studio. Outside of school, she enjoys spending time with friends, painting, drawing, and doing pottery, reading, and hiking. Her work, personal, and education experiences have all made her interested in understanding how policy impacts the children she works with. Working in many different types of eduction environments with children from many different backgrounds, she has seen how larger policy choices can heavily impact each child individually. Specifically, she researches how policies surrounding some of her own interests, such as art and the outdoors, are valued and devalued in the school system through public policy.