 When I was contacted by the Hope Crew, I don't even think that Milan finished a sentence before I was like, yes, what do you want me to do? My name is Milan Jordan, and I'm the director of the Hope Crew program at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Hope is an acronym for hands-on preservation experience, and we work across the country introducing preservation trades to a younger, more diverse audience. Since its inception, the program has made amazing strides with engaging participants who are racially and ethnically diverse. But this is the first experience that's really leading towards women leading the program and women in the trades. My name is Jessamyn Grace West. We are here in beautiful Astoria, Oregon, which is right where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. And we are inside the 1923 historic ballroom of the Astoria Odd Fellows building. And right now we're just incredibly honored to continue to work with the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Hope Crew, and they are working on a lot of our beautiful old windows to help restore them. So what we're doing now in the two weeks is taking off all that old caulking, cleaning the surface of the glass, taking away any rotten wood that we identify, cutting some of that out, treating it with epoxy, and then we'll put in new wood and also put around some more filler on that, and then we'll finally put it around all the windows and paint that again. Yeah, be involved in this really cool Odd Fellows building which has been purchased by a women team, three women that own the building, and then there's a mostly woman team fixing the windows. And then this has been really cool opportunity because I don't have any experience with windows, nothing. So it's been learning everything about the window, the terminology, and then how to restore them. And I'm usually the only woman on the site. I wish we were in a time where being part of a woman led and woman main crew wasn't a grandiose thing. I'm so glad this is happening. I wish this was the norm. I really hope that this isn't the final Hope Crew, all female project. I hope that it's able to continue to grow. I think that creating a space, especially for women, is so important, so nurturing and so needed in both the trades, but for the future of preservation. I'm hopeful that an experience like this normalizes women in the trades and that they see that this is an environment that we can all feel comfortable in and that has really meaningful social impact, that women can be business owners, that women can lead crews, that women can be leadership on crews. I think it's really amazing for people to really get out there and see that this is something that's possible. And so to be here now, to be getting to work with the National Trust for historic preservation and someone like Ariana, it is literally, I think sometimes this is overused, but it is absolutely a dream come true. And I want the trust and everybody involved to know how much this means to me, to Astoria and to this building.