Now, on high of her athletics and lecturers, she has embraced a job as an activist. She attends conferences and occasions held by the Black Scholar Union and different golf equipment and was part of UNI’s student-guided UNIty Stroll this fall.  

Gunnels stated that general the Cedar Falls space and UNI has carried out a superb job for minority college students however issues can at all times be improved.

“I believe all of us have to pay attention to issues which can be a problem that weren’t on a forefront earlier than,” she stated.  “Issues which can be simply so widespread that may be embedded into individuals’s minds so early on which can be in actuality a problem or a place to begin to changing into one.” 

After all of the racial injustices that the USA and the black neighborhood has endured over the previous yr, you will need to be part of the motion towards change. Gunnels is discovering her voice on this motion and is worked up, not solely in regards to the historical past of Black Individuals, however the future. As an adolescent and an optimist, she seems like we’re in a second of change in our nation and she or he is able to be part of it. 

“We’re launched on a regular basis to new black historical past and I begin to suppose that I’m even making black historical past of my very own in some methods.”