What is it like now, as the chief administrative officer at Bridges, to work so closely with young people today, only now you're the adult in the room? [laughs]

[laughs] Yeah, I started out as a young person organizing around, like, racial and educational equity, because technically, I was living the inequities that my parents were fighting against.

I didn't enter this work through theory.

It was based on necessity.

Schools were under-resourced.

Black students were over-disciplined.

Our voices were treated as disruptive instead of insightful.

Mm