Nina Bonin is currently a senior at Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia. She will be attending Vassar College in the Fall of 2019 and hopes to pursue international and Russian studies. Nina was drawn to the topic of slur reappropriation with a focus on the term "queer" due to her personal relationship with the word. At a younger age, Nina learned about and found a place in the LGBT+ community; since that time, she has sought to better understand the community's history and current state.