Research, Queerness, and My Omnipresent Search for Community
Echo Panana, a third-year Human-Centered Engineering student and president of oSTEM at Boston College, shares their journey of navigating college as a queer individual while finding purpose and community through research and advocacy. From the challenges of coming out in high school to building spaces of belonging in higher education, Echo reflects on how their identity shaped their experiences and inspired their involvement in building LGBTQ+ student spaces and engaging in qualitative research.
