Dr. Susan Monarez

You can have the best vision in the world and you just can't get there.

And I think, you know, managerially and organizationally,

has been, has been really, um, instructive.

It's really been an instructive time for me on, on that end.

Obviously I'll never forget that, that experience, but on a personal level, it has been a journey of resilience.

Yeah.

Um,

And, you know, like, you know how optimistic and excited I get about, you know, just, I mean, pretty much you tell me that we can do something creative and inspirational and help people and you get me excited.

And to go from.

Well, I almost did.

I mean, I'll be just super, super frank with you.

It did test my personal resilience.

because I had such incredible hopes for just the tremendous service that we could achieve through this work.

And I just had this, I felt this transformational energy that we were going to have.

Then having that, you know, gone in such a short period of time that it really, you know, it took me a bit to try to figure out

I wasn't, I'm not done.

I'm not.

I have too much that I want.

Public service for me, and I guess this is going back to how I was raised, is it's a calling for me.

I want to be 97.