Janice Garcia, una ex-pandillera, pareciá ser destinada a continuar una vida de drogas y crimen. A los 16 años, un consejero la sacó del crimen encaminaridola hacia un programa de entrenamiento para trabajos.

Trabajando como asistente médico, ella empezó a ver su imagen en una luz nueva. Ahora se vió como una persona capacitada y con derechos a una educación.
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Siendo una especi lista en la prevención de pandillas. Janice muy a menudo es la única persona que toca las vidas de jovencitas pandilleras. Janice les cuenta su propia vida demostrandoles como pueden encontrar otra forma de vivir.

PhotoJournalist's  Notes

I hadn’t decided how I was going to take the first shot until I heard her interview, then it came to me. Initially, it was recommended to me that I place her in front of a wall with graffiti. "How cliché" I remarked, how many latinos are we supposed be paraded in front of a wall with graffiti. When Janice finally made the decision to leave the gang life, she also decided that she wanted to lead a middle class life. To her, this meant a family, a house, and a car. The photograph captures those things that she was able to attain because of the departure from her previous life. The cyclone fence is typical of every other in the barrio, the neighborhood that she chose for herself to live in.

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