One Month

It's hard for me to believe that in less than a month, I will conclude my service with being on the best disability leadership committee ever. I am grateful for the memories and experiences that I was able to share with my friends who made it an adventure every time we had a meeting over Zoom. We definitely learned and grew so much more as individuals than I think we ever could have imagined possibly seeing ourselves as in a million years from now. I am grateful for the heartfelt moments we shared together as a group and even when it was hard to keep a smile on my face, I tried my hardest to get as much out of the meetings we had as I could instead of just leaving you all hanging out in the dust. 

It was such an incredible journey for me to serve as a committee member, secretary and chair of this YLC so much more than you could ever know. I truly loved being able to create our meeting agendas and make them look cute in anyway that I could while keeping a professional outcome, which if you must know was not something I took lightly. I loved being able to listen to your ideas on what we could work towards with making our committee the best ever and trying to never lose sight of what we can do rather than focusing on what we can't do. I especially liked being able to come up with and answer our icebreaker questions as we prepared for what we had on our agendas to look forward to talking about. I will greatly miss being on our meetings every three months and learning from you all about what we can do to make the community that we live in a better place. 

I am so grateful for the unforgettable memories and lessons this committee taught me about what it meant to be a leader within the disability world. It was such a delight to be in charge of what we needed to have a lot of deep conversations about how we could make this community we live in better and accepting of lots of people like ourselves in society. I will greatly miss you all so much and cannot wait to keep working w/ USILC in the distant future on ways I can be more engaged with disability related issues, which I know-- are still tough for me to understand sometimes but I can only hope for the best outcomes possible as I move forward with my advocacy journey. I love you all so much and wish you all the best of luck as you continue on with things that I cannot wait to hear about if we ever see each other again!!! 

(To Be Continued)