I have attended the Chelsea Manning event that I looked forward to since I contributed to hosting her as a co-president of Amnesty International. She began by sharing her childhood story and then her journey as a whistleblower and transgender. In search of a sense of belonging that she could not feel in her hometown or the UK, she moved back to the U.S. at the age of eighteen and continued to be lost until she joined the American Military as an intelligence analyst. Her job was to work with simple algorithms and machine learning related to Iraq and Afghanistan war around 2010 when she found out that civilian apps and technology can be easily militarized. She realized the ethical dilemmas of the technology, that time and the interest of the people are used as data for commodities and the military. The released classified documents not only contributed to such information but also included USA Military war crimes and direct evidence of the killing of Iraqi and Afghan citizens. When she spent a significant amount of time in solitary confinement, she lost connection with the world and people. This led her to wish to finalize her journey and improve her life, coming out as queer. After that, she spent four years focusing on improving her life, advocating for queer rights, and getting hormone therapy. She faced general human rights violations in prison including queer rights and prisoner rights, such as not allowing her to grow her hair or no access to hygiene products. She fought back against the violations by building community and speaking up, where she realized building community is the most important part of advocating for human rights. Her story was very inspirational and informative because it addresses the multiple fault lines in U.S society with her narrative.