A common theme between the conclusion and Rios' TED talk was letting go of this idea that marginalized youth are 'blank slates' on which non-marginalized individuals must impart their knowledge and instead recognizing the behaviors and ideologies of these youth as valid, informed responses to their social environment. In other words, we should be legitimizing/prioritizing the perspectives of these youth rather than dismissing them as ignorant and excluding them from solution-building #so345