With this summer’s Olympics Tokyo Games 2020, and the recent win for the U.S. in the Women’s soccer tournament, we got to talk with former two-time Olympic gold medalist, Angela Hucles Mangano, all about soccer, the Olympics, and her LGBTQ+ identity.

In honor of International Non-Binary People’s Day, we got to sit down with one of our lovely mentors, Tré! Tré sees being non-binary as a metamorphosis process, “I just feel like a butterfly, I’ve been a caterpillar for so long and when I figured out who I was and who I identify as I felt like a butterfly, a very gender-neutral butterfly! It is a process and I’m still trying to figure it out for myself every single day, believe it or not!”

Mentorship Matters.  But more importantly, mentorship matters for kids who are at-risk.  For someone like myself, who is a Black woman who identifies as a lesbian, I am forever grateful for the mentors that I had in my life.  My dad died when I was just fourteen years old and at the time, I had no idea why I was so angry at the world. Hell, I thought it was just teenage hormones.