A Guest Essay by Maureen Gaddis Purtill, a Graduate Planning student at UCLA. She examines her own unconscious white supremecist attitudes and traces them to her ancestral heritage in an Irish-Spanish-Mexican-American culture which privileged the Spanish over the Indigenous heritage of her ancestors. A revealing, brave and reflective analysis of how identities are formed and transmitted in a professional environment from a woman committed to the fight against white supremacism..