Deja Foxx

We won an update in Southern Arizona's largest school district of our curriculum.

And that's when it clicked for me that my story had power.

You can imagine being a teenage girl in high school.

The last thing you want everyone to know is that you're homeless.

Mm-hmm.

But when I saw what it could do, when I shared something that was scary and vulnerable, I never looked back.

I started going to town hall meetings, right?

Going to senators.

And I ended up going to college, being the first in my family.

An Instagram DM is how I got my job on the Kamala Harris campaign in 2019.

And the reason there was space for me on that campaign was twofold because I worked in the most diverse campaign in the field where I was routinely in meetings with just other women of color who saw my potential.

And because these new emerging digital spaces, right?

Nobody has a PhD in TikTok.

Right.

And so young people like me who have been at the front of content creation and the intersection of social justice and social media have a unique opportunity in this moment to take up leadership in our places of work, in politics, on campaigns.

and yes, in Congress too, because we know how to use these platforms better than anyone else because we were basically raised on them.

As I think forward to this moment now, a lot has happened since that 2020 run.

What hasn't happened?

Right.

We're in a vastly different political spot, and I had to sit down with myself and ask a really hard question, which was, can I continue—