Lila Knutila is a Writing/Thinking partner for the Siskiyou Students Write program. She spent her childhood in the small town of Gazelle; current population is seventy, small enough to be classified as a village. She’s grown beyond the hills around her home and is moving on to Southern Oregon University to pursue her passion in Psychology and Communications. Twenty-one and excited, she is passionate about her endeavors and plans on doing all she can to reach them.