 My name is Letitia Spence-Brookens and I am an Education Director with the Wisconsin Technical College System. I currently oversee EMS, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Substance Use Disorder Counseling. I do what I do because I love being a connector of people, resources, and ideas. I love the opportunity to collaborate with the colleges on how they move their curriculum forward with students. It's personal to me because to me, technical college systems even out the educational scope and the employment playing field. I feel like we're this hidden gem that a lot of people just aren't aware of. It's, you know, as a high school student, I remember there being a track, right? You either are going to a four-year or you're going to a technical college. There was no conversation about how the technical college fits even if your long-term goal is to go to a four-year or to get a master's degree. And as a first-year college student, I graduated with a lot of debt that I probably really could have avoided if I had had those more meaningful conversations about really leveraging those degrees along the way and how I could have had that cost savings. I don't think that education now has a blueprint. I think it's constantly requiring that we evolve, and I think success for me is being able to collaborate with colleges, with systems, with external partners to make sure that we are able to pivot and be agile to meet the changing needs of our student demographic.