My name is andrea, i work as a coordinator for the City Attorneys Office in San Francisco. A lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. I double majored in Political Science and always tried to combine both of those majors. I ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. I thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. I work for the Transportation Agency known as muni and im a senior work supervisor. I first started as a nonprofit and came to San Francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. This opportunity came up by way of an executive fellowship. They had a program at mta to work in Workforce Development type project and i definitely jumped on that. I didnt know this was something that i wanted to do. All i knew is that i wanted to help people and i wanted to empower others. The environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stayathome moms. It wasnt that they didnt have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. My mom came from el salvador during the civil war. She worked very hard. When she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. When i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didnt pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. There isnt much support or advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. There also arent very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. When i first had the opportunity, i thought thats not for me. My previous role was a project manager for a biotech start up. I thought how do i go from technology to working in government. Thinking i didnt know about my skills, how am i going to