So it all came from her being a consultant 10 years ago at a place I used to work at.

Hi, I'm Andrea Ward, philanthropy officer for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.

And I'm thinking back to this one time that the president of the current board here, Christine Stevens, reached out and just called me and said, Andrea, you're going to be my scholarship committee chair.

And I asked her, how many meetings is it? She goes, just like six.

And lo and behold, it was a meeting a month, if not more, for other committee assignments I had to do.

But...

I managed to meet a slew of other individuals, other philanthropy officers, other phenomenal humans who I've gone to conferences with, had amazing lunches with, and just enjoy spending time with.