 My name is Dawn Strickland, and I'm one of the founding Laundromat Project board members. Risa Wilson inspired me to support the Laundromat Project. When I first met her, she had this very, very clear vision of how connecting people with their imagination could really catapult them into making transformations in their own personal lives. And from the first moment she told me that, it just made sense to me. I know that the Laundromat Project has provided artists with a community of like-minded people who want to use art as a way to connect with those around them and to help inspire those around them to transform their own lives and their own communities. Hello, my name is Rudy Shepard. I'm an artist. I remember Risa telling me about this idea of starting an art residency in Laundromat, and it's an idea that I related to a lot as a sculptor and someone that had done a lot of public art projects and political art projects. It really forced me as an artist to participate, almost to look at my role as an artist and sort of show my neighbors what I do, you know, and sort of be seen as an artist in my own community. My name is Allison Hall Kibbe. My 2015 Create Change project took place in the South Bronx on Kelly Street with the Kelly Street Community Garden. The Laundromat Project has been a community and a home. The community of diverse cultural workers on my friends and my collaborators, they inspire and challenge me to continue stepping into my practice with authenticity, rigor, and love. And as an organization, the Laundromat Project has continued to invest in the kind of community-engaged social justice creativity that's important to me, helping me take risks and think differently.