 Hope Crew is an acronym and it stands for the Hands-On Preservation Experience. This is a very unique model. In fact, this is the second time that we've partnered with Morgan State University. We are taking mostly a whole summer and we're walking students through preservation planning and practice and theory and on-the-ground work. In order to identify this project, we work very closely with our National Heritage Area partners, Baltimore National Heritage Area. They helped us identify the Peel Center because they knew that the Peel Center had a great project and was open to partnering and teaching young people or provide an opportunity for young people to learn about historic preservation. It connects the architectural theory that these students are well versed in and are learning at Morgan State University, which is a premier architecture school and it's connected them to the practical side. It was something I hadn't learned yet and so I wanted to see what it was about. So it was a great opportunity to actually get hands-on experience of what I was learning in the class. This opportunity means a lot. It's given me a new perspective, a different pathway in architecture. It challenges me and it actually helps me acquire new skills. So we're mainly working on masonry. We're doing repointing of the brickwork resetting pavers. The more they get a feel of the hands-on actually doing it, they can see how things are done. So in addition to the Peel Center's amazing history of being Baltimore's first city hall, it was the first place where African-American students were educated in the state of Maryland. Working on the Peel Center and knowing some of its history and being able to restore it and kind of reintroduce or bring that history back to the community so they know about it, take the mystery and kind of unveil the building and the history. For me it's about actually envisioning myself during that time, restoring it and giving it a purpose again and making it a place that people ask you might want to come back just gives it more life. It's always heartfelt, heartwarming to actually witness what is seen before and actually what is done afterwards. Preserving it allows it to you know keep its place and time in a changing world. What can be done with this and what preservation does is it's larger than the Peel Center and it's larger than buildings actually. It's the fact that preservation brings communities together. Preservation has the the opportunity to tell a larger story. It's about connecting local communities to historic places that matter to them. So it's about being as intentional and strategic as possible to make sure that preservation is as inclusive as possible and as diverse as possible.