Brett Cooper

And I was super in that world at the time.

Like the reason why I was chosen was because in late elementary school, middle school, I had an after-school program that I created and ran where I worked with members of my hometown's like underprivileged community.

Most of them were immigrants.

I worked

with them and taught theater arts and improv to these young kids, my own peers.

They were around my age and I used improv and theater arts as a way to boost confidence and create community and help their language skills.

To make this even worse, guys, I know I'm like talking about Jennifer Newsome, Hillary Clinton, Disney.

Disney gave me money to do this program.

I won a Disney grant for this after school program that I put together and ran.

I wrote plays that the kids would put on.

It was so much fun, so I did that for many years.

And then as a high schooler, as you guys probably know if you've watched my show for a while, I got really, really involved in women's self defense against sexual assault.

living in Los Angeles.

And so I started traveling around with my instructor and we would teach at various high schools and women's organizations.

And so because of those two things, I was super, super involved in social entrepreneurship.

At the time, I thought I might want to end up doing that as a career, working in this kind of nonprofit advocacy space.

I guess sort of I am with this channel.

I'm like talking about social issues.

But anyway, that is why

I was chosen, so I did that program summer of 2016, and then after that initial Empower program, the same organization, Ann Inc., and Vital Voices invited me and a few others from different classes back to their annual Vital Voices Leadership Retreat with the adult women from Vital Voices, and it concluded, this whole fall summit that we did, it concluded with us doing a panel at an event called the Worldwide Women's Girls Festival that was moderated by none other than first partner,