Amanda Knox

So that was like my first time like experiencing Ethiopian food or like, and it's just like one of those things because like Johnsonville, there is not an Ethiopian restaurant in Johnsonville.

So like for the first time I'm eating Ethiopian food or being open to other

the other cultures is being in D.C.

And I love D.C.

because I always saw D.C.

as the place where you could go create change.

Absolutely.

For sure.

And that's where change is.

I mean, over time and over the years of my career, I started to learn that, like,

Nah, like you could create change in other spaces.

But I used to think that like, if you're going to do change, change work, you need to be doing movement work.

You need to be like in a nonprofit or you need to be in the government.

That's the only way you could do change.

And that's evolved for me, but...

That was like my experience.

And it was just like, DC to me still, DC is still my home.

I spent my time between DC and LA, but DC for me still, there's something, even though like the heaviness of a Trump administration in Washington, DC is very heavy and like what's happening right now, particularly how black women and,

Black people are infected.

It's still something special to me about D.C.