{"id":3670,"date":"2021-12-14T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/alek-gastmans-baynes\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:42:10","slug":"alek-gastmans-baynes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/alek-gastmans-baynes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alek Gastmans-Baynes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alek Gastmans-Baynes<\/b><\/h3>\n

About Myself<\/b>: I was born in Seattle, WA, on October 11th, 2005, and I\u2019ve lived here my whole life. I grew up with two separate families, I\u2019m white-passing because of my two very different families, one Belgian side (my dad) and one Venezuelan afrolatino side (my mom).<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a musician, I play drums and I would love to learn guitar, it\u2019s just such a fascinating instrument. I primarily play jazz but I am interested in playing many different kinds of music in the future. I guess I just grew up listening to a lot of music. It\u2019s always been a big part of me and I\u2019ve always loved it. <\/span><\/p>\n

I like skiing and I think everyone should try it. My dad is an outdoors guy so I spend a lot of time in the mountains and outside with him. I really want to learn how to swim well.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m 15 and currently going into 10th grade. I do rowing as a competitive sport.<\/span><\/p>\n

My two families are very different. I\u2019m much more connected to my mom\u2019s side than my dad\u2019s, but I spend a lot of time with him. I also like playing chess online.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why I Joined the MAS Youth Program<\/b> : I didn\u2019t plan to join or even really know that much about it, but my aunt Milvia is leading the program and my mom decided for me to join. If she had asked me I probably wouldn\u2019t have said yes since school is so stressful this year already, so I\u2019m glad she decided for me. Meeting Baba Ricardo Guity was really an experience I wouldn\u2019t want to miss out on.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”3373″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3421″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/por-alek\/”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3369″ img_size=”full”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”3373″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”3422″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/carmela-stewart\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”3433″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/malay-santiago\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”3440″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/nadine-gibson\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”3445″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/nuani-santiago\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”3447″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/pedro-martinez-pinto\/”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3449″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/projects\/connecting-more\/”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] Alek Gastmans-Baynes About Myself: I was born in Seattle, WA, on October 11th, 2005, and I\u2019ve lived here my whole life. I grew up with two separate families, I\u2019m white-passing because of my two very different families, one Belgian side (my dad) and one Venezuelan afrolatino side (my mom). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":3788,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3670","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3670\/revisions\/4121"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}