Throughout my graduate experience, I have had quite a few opportunities to identify, discuss, and incorporate my values in parallel with values of the profession, but most notably in writing my Personal Statement of Mission paper for CSP 6050: Capstone Seminar (ACPA & NASPA, 2015, p. 19).  I worked to narrow the list down to five personal and five professional values that were also connected to goals I hope to achieve.  In this narrowing down process, I noticed many of the values I hold are consistent across my personal and professional life.  One of those values is authenticity, which makes sense.  I want to live out what I try to educate my students with outside of my position or role on a campus.  For example, equity is one of my professional values because I have identified it as critical, not only for student affairs practitioners, but for my own practice. Every student should feel a sense of belonging to the community or group within the institution and I believe that starts with understanding the identities that students bring with them into spaces, whether it be a classroom, social event, or any of the spaces in between.  I have worked to exemplify an understanding of the inequities in education and our society, and am willing to engage to learn more to come as close to understanding as I can regarding identities and experiences I do not have.