Payton Owens

I began to manage my family's business at the age of seventeen. My goals in life are to continue this business and to become a crime scene investigator or a crime lab analyst.

I like the AAP because I can still live at home with my dogs, and my family, I can also continue to have a normal job as a dance teacher.

Seeing the kids at my dance studio looking up to me is what makes me happiest. They see me as a role model and as a teacher, I say this because it feels like a good outcome as I danced for fifteen years.

Interview by Alejandro Trujillo -Reyes, spring 2022