 I'm so excited to present our invited speaker to the stage. Helen Nash is enrolled in Helen's team program. She's an action and social justice advocate at Downs and Drum. She graduated from Nathan Hill High School, where she participated in Swim Team and Pride Club and Unified Drama. Helen is also an active on the Seahawks Racing Team, Special Olympics Unified Sporting Teams as well. So we're so excited to have you here today. Please give a warm welcome to Helen Nash. Thank you, Garrick. All right, let's begin. It all started when I was a little girl. When I was born, no one in my family knew I had a disability, including myself. When I was an elementary school, I knew I had an actual chromosome, but I didn't know I had a disability. I felt included socially and academically. I loved the teachers there, and they gave me the attention and the things I needed from them. It went on. Middle school came around. The school district wanted to put me in a retained classroom, but my parents fought against it and placed me into the mainstream school community there. By the time I was in seventh and eighth grade, I felt mostly included. Most of the friends that I made happened then. I liked the teachers even more. They were really nice and helpful. They knew what it was I needed, and whenever I needed the help, they were there to help me. I made more friends when I was there. Most of them did not have a disability like me. Some of them did. Finally, when high school came around, I went to Nathan Hill. I felt comfortable with the place, and I felt included into their system. From there, I loved the teachers, and they gave me the attention I needed and to make sure that I was successful. During junior year, I had a senior friend, Nate, out at an LK day assembly about the LGBTQ rights and how LGBTQ students were being segregated and discriminated against. This was heartbreaking and very inspirational to me. With his inspiration, I wrote a speech myself on an issue that I really cared about, but this happened later. During the last two weeks or so of the summer of my junior year, I met another person who opened me up to an issue that I had not looked at. Seriously before disability inclusion, I did a two-week summer camp with an organization called Outdoor for All. It's a familiar organization that you all might know. It worked out all too well since my first week. We overlapped with that other friend of mine. His name, Liam Neville. And he too had a disability. And on the 26th of August, he asked me out on a date and I accepted it with Liam as my boyfriend. Everything I knew about myself had changed, even though Liam was as old as me, but three years of high school on that time to me. Another I didn't get to know at all. People in the contained classrooms, funny and a bunch of friends who also happened to have disabilities. However, though, Liam's class was isolated from school, they each run together, alone, and know their table well, except me. Some days they ate in their classroom because they had a different schedule than the rest of us. I often joined Liam there, but someday the teacher didn't allow me to go in. The more I thought about it, about how separated I was from Liam and the other friends, even though we attended the same school, the more anger I felt. Next example, I saw how both the LGBTQ community connected with the disability community and that they were experiencing the same issues. I wanted to make the point that we had a school inside a school at Nathan's Hale. I made my senior project on disability inclusion. I gave my own summary, came around, about the history of saying and getting people with disabilities or lost great examples of inclusion at Nathan's Hale. We had unified drama and unified soccer. Being unified is when people with and without disabilities get together to produce or have fun with an activity they all like. This was the best way to make new friends. I now go to school here at Highline College. This college is a truly inclusive community. It welcomes people with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ students, people of color and everyone else. I am sharing this with you all today because I want to make the world more without you, our voices heard, the who's and who will. And while we are speaking up for ourselves, core 10s to speak for us and with us, I'll be schools with more inclusion, communities in the community, choices when you vote. And I might go back. My speech right off to you is actually a call, a call for people like you to join Unified Club, a leadership club happening today at 115 to 215 Building 99. I hope you guys can come. Thank you.