Focus on indigenous people, international law, UN, impact of pandemic and community care. Erika Strauss-Chavarria is a 13th year Spanish teacher at Wilde Lake High School. Erika is a board member of several Racial Justice organizations and the founder of Columbia Community Care, and organization that has provided hundreds of thousands of Howard County community members. She is the recipient of the 2020 Howard County Human Rights Commission Human Rights Award and was selected as one of the Baltimore Sun's 25 Women to Watch. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx