Yes, and I touched on that too in the second paragraph after this as well as my experience talking writing about my sex worker friend. I am not talking about patnering up here. Whether you patner up or don't, I mean taking the time to actually learn about those being represented and being comfortable enough to respectfully discuss the hard things that challenge the community that person is not from. It should be ok for someone to learn about and talk about things that aren't from their community without simply patnering up but rather emersing themselves into the topics and cultures they want to talk about, take time to learn about them and understand their ways and then put out their experience from that point of view. I think that this makes them more aware about what and who they are representing and the experience they get from that makes them more in tune with cultures different from their own. If they approach it with the intent to learn about cultures different from their own, I think that's good for cultural harmony. Not to mention, representatives are also always subject to their biases and personal interests which may in most cases not help in putting the whole story out their. I have worked on projects with the world bank where those people get representatives on the district level to come here and oversee the finances. Those people not only misrepresent the actual facts, but they also go ahead to take as much as 50% of the funding meant to benefit rural farmers. If the world bank were to atleast bring down one representative who could report back the actual facts on ground without these local district representatives, it would go a long way. Now, this is just in funding but it does happen on identity levels also. Sure, partners can be great but I for one, I am talking about first hand experience here and documenting from that point of view. I think that is fine.