University of Toledo junior soccer player Lexa Bauer believes that the time to use her voice to enact change is now.
Growing up in Sylvania and attending Notre Dame Academy, Bauer has chosen to participate in recent Black Lives Matter protests throughout Toledo and make her beliefs heard in the community she has always called home.
“Being a young woman of color in America and wanting to be a part of hopefully what is going to be the change is what drove me to be at the protests,” Bauer said. “The fact that historically people before me went to protests and fought for things so my life could be good, I want to be able to do that for the people that come after me, too.