yeah.So what's interesting isn't it took me till kind of, you know, coming to Jen (Waldman's) studio to connect a lot of the dots in my own like disability advocacy journey, but I've been doing disability advocacy work since I was a kid and I just didn't see it as that because I just was like, it's just what I do. Like I'm not a I don't I'm not advocate. I'm just Like, I see something that's not right, I want to fix it, like, let's do it. So I've lived with a low vision my whole life, the I'm legally blind. I, you know, when I was a kid, the doctors were like, maybe your daughter will be totally blind, or maybe she'll be able to see an m&m from across the street, like, we don't know. You know, I've always been sort of having to learn to navigate my own vision. But because I grew up, what got me into public school, like, was the only kid with low vision that I knew. And then when I got to be a teenager went to a specialist that told me that I could do a lot of things with some low vision technology, she was like, you could learn to drive, you could, you can use all this stuff with your studying, like, let me get all this stuff, it's on your computer, let me get you this special screen read stuff to you like, and like my world was open all these all these limits for me, you know, and the glasses I learned to drive in are glasses that I wear to the theater, and I all of a sudden have never seen facial expressions in a Broadway show before. And if I sit on the front row and wear these glasses, it's like, oh, my God, people have faces. So that was a cool moment for me as a teenager. And I realized I asked her, you know, like, how, how do other kids get this? Like, how many other kids do you see, like? And she said, Well, you know, it's kind of tricky, because insurance doesn't always cover this, like extra stuff. And there are a lot of kids in rural areas that don't even get to come see me. And I was like, well, that's bogus, like, no, we're gonna change that. And so, um, as a kid, I did a lot of work with her to like, raise awareness about her low vision center. And it's in the big teaching hospital where I'm actually going to be doing arts and medicine stuff. So it's kind of full circle, but created an organization that raise funds so that all kids and teenagers can get access to low vision technology, and then also have a place to come together and like talk about what it's like to have low vision because, like, all my you know, sighted friends can be like, God, that must be so hard. Like, yeah, it is, like you don't really know. And like, no shame to them, like, I love the the kindness. But it was, it's been great to have that kind of community. And so creating that as a young person sort of sowed seeds in me that like this is, I guess, what I love, it's what I felt the most alive doing. But you know, you go to musical theater school, you get trained to do only musical theater. And then if you want to do anything else, you're considered like not dedicated or not driven, or not like, Oh, you don't really want this. So, um, I feel like some of my advocacy work, just like was really quiet or just like, told that it had to take a break. And then I remember moving to New York, and going through my own journey of like, Oh, I really need some accommodations here. Like, I really need to figure out how to be successful, like, This is hard. I don't have an occupational therapist teaching me how to get around like I did at home. I mean, I could have, but sometimes my own independence gets in the way. Anyway, I was, you know, going through the auditions wasn't saying anyone else with any disabilities that I could like, talk to, or whatever, would ask for accommodations that like, you know, the equity building, and I'd be like, Can I get these sides in large print, and they're like, you can go make a copy of FedEx down the street. And I was like, Huh, that sucks. Weird, because, you know, when you're a kid, you get accommodations, like, if you're in a public school, if you're an adult, like, you got to be really crafty all the time. Because it's unless you're in like a constant office job, where it's like a requirement... No one cares. Unless you make them care, kinda. So anyway, saw that, and then it was just really realizing that like, I wasn't seeing a lot of disability representation, I wasn't able to talk to people about it. Um, and I had conversations with friends about it. And I was like, well, this is weird. And like, we don't have any tools to advocate for ourselves in the industry, like, I can advocate for myself in school, but it's different in a dance call, or it's different in this. And so I just started reaching out to folks in New York, there's an amazing woman named Christine Bruno, who she used to work with the National Alliance of inclusion in the arts, but that organization kind of like disbanded. And now she's a freelance inclusion consultant. And she's like, I, some, she's amazing, and she's like, my blind girl manager, because whenever there's a role that's like, We need someone with low vision, she'll send out an email blast to all the people with low vision and say, like, this is how you submit or if there's, you know, I mean, it could be any disability, but she's the she's the go to girl and everyone in industry, like goes to her to get the breakdowns out. And so I was like, oh, they're, they're more Christine's out there. And then I met these, like the disability community at large, which was exciting for me as someone who had been in like a low vision bubble, because once you learn about disability, like as a community and also as just learning about the various like, I don't want to say trials but just like the the, like the struggles the just the unfair stuff that everyone like in different groups has to go through but mobility be it you know i mean i could think of anything and there's just so like you can't not get frustrated and you can't not want to help and you can't not release i was i was like well this is this isn't like my friends in wheelchairs have showed up to auditions that are on the second floor and there's no elevator like what and so i was just enraged and so learning about all this made me want to get back in and meet more people doing this work and do the work in general well i'm talking a mile a minute so i'm sorry but that's just oh and then in 2017 i had this off broadway show called bastard jones and that like really changed stuff for me because the casting team wanted a cast that mirrored the the way that america like like they wanted their cast to look like america and race and disability and you know gender gender sexuality all of it so it was interesting we had a nine person cast and like because 25% of americans have a disability two out of the nine of us like had a disability um you know it was just the the cast was so dynamically representative of what our country looks like i'm in like race and age and what's interesting is it was like a rock musical set in the times of like powdered wigs and corsets um but the script never said anything about how we had the look or not look in the show never commented on how woke it was like they just made the choice and then we did the show and it was once as an actor i had an opportunity like that i thought in my head like i can never not do shows like this like once i worked with a cast like that and saw how like the creativity was like i mean explosive and the points of view are just so dynamic and it's so funny because when we would go out to meals and stuff as a cast it literally was like this is like this is the most like band of like like we just you know we just looked so like on the surface like how are all these people like you know we were just such a family and it was so exciting and so that was another opportunity that was like well every show should be like this and i'm not gonna stop until more shows are looking like this and be that in their casting do that who's behind the table be that who's creating the costumes and the sets and who's in the house and home so that really got my brain turning and then you know things just continued to evolve and the documentary series happened and then inclusion consulting kind of happened out of that as well