Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture When Rivers, who graduated from Penn State in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in integrative arts, came back to the University to pursue an additional degree in visual arts she realized that one thing she never accomplished was creating a video. When deciding on the idea for the project, she said her goal was to get viewers to self-reflect after watching the three-minute film. “I wanted people to sit and think how they can become allies instead of tearing each other down,” Rivers said. No matter one's skin color, she said we are all capable of doing the same thing, which is why she wanted to include the voices of her teammates while displaying footage of them competing in different races.