Amanda Knox

In D.C.

and did an internship.

And that literally was what put me on the trajectory that has taken me to where I'm at today.

My goodness, that is fascinating.

And we we share similar stories in me going from Martin, Tennessee to D.C.

What was that like going from a very small town?

I'm interested to hear your take on it to the city itself.

known as Washington, D.C., because I know for me it was a big jump.

And I was like, whoa, this is different.

Yes.

So it was a bit helpful because I went to the University of South Carolina.

And so when I went to USC, it was a large campus.

I was very active at USC and in student government and student activism there.

But when I went to D.C., so Columbia was like kind of city, but that was big city to me.

But D.C., it was like...

And then I had never been around or in a city with so many black folks that were just doing the thing.

And not that Johnsonville didn't have dynamic, amazing, excellent black folks, but just seeing black people running things, leading, mayors, all of that.

I had never seen that.

Honestly, I had never even seen or been around other...

just populations of the diaspora of black people.