on, you know, so my my story, you know, there are a lot of twists and turns that that brought me to where I am today and to who I am today. But when I think about my career, and many people know that I founded the African American Development Officers network, a do. Because, you know, 30 years ago, I was the first front line fundraiser, you know, and I say of color, but I was the first black fundraiser at Georgia Tech. And, you know, when I looked around the room, I saw other people who were black, but it didn't dawn on me for a minute that they were not fundraisers, that they were administrative, you know, professionals, and I don't say that in a, you know, in a condescending, you know, manner or tone, but they weren't fundraisers, and it honestly wasn't until maybe five years later, when I received a trailblazer award. And I said, What am I receiving this Trailblazer award for? And they say because you were the first black fundraiser. And I said, and we're celebrating that. I mean, right? No, in almost 2000 that's something you give an award to someone for. But so, you know, so that that led me to founding a do. I loved fundraising, I loved that work, and I believed in in the missions that I was advancing. I needed a space where I could be understood, though, without having to constantly explain, and I needed a community of people who looked like me, who shared unspoken realities of navigating predominantly white spaces and. You know, in within white institutions, while I was trying to thrive professionally. And so I realized and understood that that longing was not about connection, it was about kinship. And I didn't realize that then, right? And many years later, I didn't even know what to what to call it like. I didn't know it was kinship then, you know, and understanding that now is like the exclamation point, right? I get it, and I'm working that into, you know, all of my, you know, conversations about it and, and I'll conclude this part by saying I was speaking in Rochester, New York last week, and a young woman got up at the end of of my time. And, you know, I have spent half, half of the entire existence of AFP, I have been a member. Okay, so AFP is 65 years old. I have been a member of AFP for 35 years, right? And one of the first founders of AFP was a black man in 1960 and people don't realize that. I didn't know that. Yes, 65 years later, we have the first CEO. Do we go, yay, that's great. Or do we go, wait what it took 65 years. But anyway, I'll conclude by the the young woman stood up and she said, um, I attended an A do meeting 12 years ago in Cincinnati, I worked with a wonderful young woman, Adrienne Taylor, in creating a session for folks in need, 75 people, and this young woman heard about it and drove I'm gonna get emotional, you know, I'll know how I am. She drove seven hours from Rochester, New York to get to Cincinnati, to be in community with professionals who looked like her and identified, you know, with her, seven hours overnight to get there, to be there. We weren't even advertising this in Rochester for Cincinnati. And 12 years later, that was the connection that was important to her. And she's still in fundraising. She's doing amazing things. And so that's to me, that's, that's kinship, right? And that okay, I could keep going, but we need to hear from the day, but yeah, so you know, kinship, kinship.