Amanda Knox

So and just doing amazing things.

Like I think about the Black Excellence Brunch, what it's done for the culture and then really to be here with you.

Like, so I'm grateful to be here with you.

Love, love, love your journey.

And, you know, the D.C.

like, you know, like the D.C.,

The DC hustle.

Baby, because that's what it is.

The DC hustle, but to just see just the space and just the beauty of what you bring, the impact.

So I'm just glad to be here.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

So I want to know before the titles, before the world.

knew who you were take us back to who you were before you knew advocacy was your calling on that journey because I know it's been a journey it's been a journey so interestingly you know I'm from rural South Carolina so I'm from a town with population 1400 people wait that's less than me I thought I was from a small town yeah are you serious Johnsonville South Carolina wow I think it's 1491 something like that like it changes from time to time

But I'm from a little small town.

I grew up on a dirt road.

My family still lives on that dirt road.

And I think really what...

Like who I always was the kid growing up.

My mom would tell me stories about being me, being the kid that would talk to anybody in the grocery store.