Laura laughs, shaking her hair out of her eyes. "I was a long younger, and I was at a protest much like this one. Things got out of hand, and I found myself in handcuffs. I think I was sixteen." So nothing on her permanent record, thank goodness.

"That's what we need to change. We deserve representation, just as everyone else does. While it's not a perfect system, we can work to make it better. And that includes an even distribution of power."