Yeah, so I know we've talked, but I would love for you to share why did you start dream.org? What's your mission? What's your focus? And I know today we're going to go deeper into one of your initiatives, which is green for all, but would just love to start with your background and your journey.

Sure.

So I mean, it's so hard to figure out how to talk about why I'm at Dream.org.

I think there are a lot of different paths that led me here.

But I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and daughter of Indian immigrant parents growing up in the 70s and 80s.

And Georgia was very much black and white.

And I was kind of in the middle.

You have to

Were you talking to like a nun or, you know, who was this and how did this...

Well, her name is Miss McCullough.

I can remember it completely.

But I do remember being like, you can take your patriarchal assumptions of what a woman should be and, you know, put them on someone else.

I mean, I still remember standing up in that moment and talking.

And I was also a big personality, as you can imagine.

at school anyway, and being captain of the debate team, I certainly love to argue any point.

Was there a moment where, in the spirit of finding common ground— looking back after you achieved what you wanted to achieve you thought maybe i i went too far maybe i bent on certain values that i shouldn't have to justify the end i was looking for