 Part of being a citizen in a democracy is knowing what you're voting for and knowing like being educated enough to understand Like where to take a stand and that's what journalism is for. It's to educate us It's to help reveal to us what what we ought to What we ought to care about and I think citizen journalism in many cases lets us lets us Let's us have windows into parts of the world that We otherwise wouldn't and helps us relate to one another when when I'm able to share my story as as an individual and first person You're able to see like sort of take a you know walk in my shoes, right? That's the that's that's the way this works, and I think I think Educating one another the the most powerful thing that citizen journalism can do is to educate us about About other people in our communities you