I was always the translator for my parents. So I was always the one filling out documents and whatever needed to be done. There was a lot of times that people would not help, you know? Even if simple questions as where do we need to go to find out information for this? They would just, they would kind of ignore you, not help you. And as I grew up watching that for my parents, I learned that they easily did that to them because they couldn’t defend themselves.

I was growing up, and I'm like, and I became more knowledgeable. I realized that there were being discriminated against. And I'm like, you, I was like, you cannot ignore them. We, we know this and this and this. And so they would take you more seriously. But whenever they wouldn't get help, they would just get shooed away. They're like, we can't help you. They didn't want to help. They didn't want to talk to them. So they made everything harder for them. I grew up more quickly than I needed to. Yeah, that’s for sure.

I think as I reflect on that, it gave me a choice. Whether I wanted to, you know, blend in and, you know, not be noticed or learn to be a voice. And I think I chose that. I, I go the extra mile for somebody. Like, if somebody were to come here to the office, even if it's not my job, you know, I try not to shoo them away and say, I don't know. I'm going to find, if I don't know the answer, I'm going to find out. And I think those experiences helped me shape that because somebody at some point didn't want to help me. And I don't want to be like them.