Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

My mother… would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’ You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

It’s time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.