As I’m sure everyone has already noted, my name is Michelle Badillo. I am a sophomore Screenwriting major and Women’s Studies minor. Regardless of the amount of female police chiefs and female presidents and female executives we see portrayed on television and in film, the entertainment industry is still widely regarded as a men’s club. Writing staffs, executives, and producers are predominantly male, so I’m hoping that my education in Women’s Studies will help me to level the playing field. I am a half Puerto Rican, half Argentinean girl from Queens, and when I first arrived at Loyola Marymount I was stunned by the sheer lack of Hispanics I encountered. To go from a world inundated by Latin culture to a world where it hardly seems to exist was something I had trouble grappling with for a while. To discover that LMU offered a class that would encompass both Latin culture and feminism was a revelation. I was surprised to find how little I actually know about Latina/Chicana feminism, and I am looking forward immensely to this learning experience.