Jillian Nelson
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292 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And it was because I fit in.
Like it was loud and assertive and
The rest of the white girls that
Wanted to bat their eyelashes and curl their hair and I didn't care about those things.
So
I would one hundred percent aggr agree with that statement.
Um, early on in my policy career I was sitting in the office of um
The former senator Jason Isaacson.
And he looked at me one day and he was like, you know, he he was my former college professor, so we had a good relationship.
And he looked at me, he's like, Do you know what I like about you as a lobbyist?
And I was like, What, Jason?
And he's like, When you when your feet hit the hill, you claim male privilege.
And it was this really great insight, like that what made me such a different lobbyist as an autistic adult was that I never really follow like the gender norms of how people
People act on the hill.
Like I'll walk straight into a meeting.
I'm not gonna ask you about your kids and the weather.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what I need from you and how you can help me and why you should help me.
And he's like, and this is refreshing.
Like so many, and like I started watching the other female autists or female lobbyists on the hill and looking at how other women were leading and realizing, oh yeah, no, I don't follow any of the same patterns.
No.
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