My name is Bianca Morales. I am a Christian hetero cis latina that is also
a cat owner. My major is in Communication with an emphasis in
Interpersonal and Family Communication. I have the privilege and
blessing to be a part of the Weber State Debate team here on campus,
Weber State’s oldest and most competitive extracurricular activity. In
my free time I like to hike the Utah outdoors, enjoy leisure with
family, sometimes enjoy concerts, read books, cook and bake,
go trail running, kayak, camp, road trip, discover good music, and especially sleep.

I was born in Nogales, a city that is caught in between the
U.S./Mexico border. I was born on the Arizonan side but was raised in
the Sonoran side until I was 5. My family then moved to Tucson,
Arizona so I could attend public school and there I learned English. I
was lucky enough to begin grade school when classrooms were still
conducted in mixed bilingual formats, a structure I hope to see again
in the future because I believe it can facilitate social cohesion,
cultural exchange, and work to reduce xenophobia and racism.

I hope to use my degree to empower women and other marginalized
voices. I believe the most effective way of doing that occurs at a
personal level of healing, empowerment, and the ability to cultivate
and embrace various manifestations of love. I have always been able to
visualize myself practicing clinical therapy because of my exposure to
it from a clinical and academic perspective from a very young age. As
a child, my dad earned his Master’s degree in counseling so I have
very early memories of being counseled through conflict with my best
friends over petty children's issues such as using someone’s favorite towel
without first asking for permission, or whether the purchase of a
specific shampoo was acting in “copy cat” behavior or not. As silly as
those disagreements and discussions sound now, I believe they laid a
communication foundation for me that has grown into a passion at being
able to listen and communicate difficult emotional issues. Working
through those issues through dialectics and relationships is where my
heart lies. Whether or not that will be the entirety of my career for
the duration of my life course is something I am still not sure of. My
emphasis was originally in Civic Advocacy because I can also see
myself as a bridge between actually facilitating these types of
conversations and fostering the environments that allows them to
manifest. I also do not see the two as mutually exclusive. I decided
on the change in major, though, because I saw my participation in
Weber State Debate as supplementing the advocacy portion of my dreams
while the purely academic portion being focused on the individual
aspect of it seemed sensible. Overall, I believe that if I stick to
the right principles, stay true to my morals, and think with my heart,
I will "find my way.”