I have a lot of favorite poets but I were to choose one, it would be Pat Mora. one of her poems is "The Desert Is My Mother." In it she describes the desert as being gentle and caring — it gave me a completely new way on how to view something that many immigrants describe as harsh and evil.TVWho in your life do you most look up to and why?VT: St. Louis is expected to have heated up by more than five degrees Fahrenheit on average by the middle of the century. Hot weather will dry out soil. Past 2050, the Central Plains, including much of Missouri, can look forward todecades-long drought “By the end of the century, Houston would see about three weeks of what we call off-the-charts heat conditions, which are when the combination of temperature and humidity falls above the national weather services heat index scale,” she said. “What that means is that we can’t even calculate a heat index to reliably warn people about how dangerous it is.”St. Louis you don't see it. You never see that diversity. [That said, there are explicitly] no white people inBrown Girls,whatsoever. They aren't even extras.FA: