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Hi, Nia cruise Carrington. I am let Dina by way of my parents being boy in Puerto Rico, although I was born in Germany,

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that makes me a little bit of everything. I worked with dour Breast Cancer Coalition. I am officially their outreach manager, but that entails being

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an advocate for the Latino women, educating women unrest out and breast cancer issues. Moving on, state policymaking boards to

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help ensure that the inner voice is always heard. And having to really go out and identify women who are at

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risk and making sure that we remove or eliminate as many access barriers to care that they might have.

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This job has helped me grow as a person in the sense that I've become more grounded. I've, I find myself becoming more and more grateful each

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day and seeing the unique challenges that the Hispanic community faces, I find myself becoming more civically involved up until this job,

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although I'd always had a voice somewhere, I've never really had a purpose to that voice. And then finding out that there are

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so many women here in Delaware who just simply lack the education to know simple, simple things that are out there. It really gave me the, um,

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from the movement that I needed to really make sure that their voices are heard. When I started looking

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for statistics and found that everybody else is counted by Hispanics. Why not? What are the fastest growing population

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in the state of Delaware? And it really gave me the gusto and the freedom and the courage to really look at the,

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the government makers in their face and challenge them and say, Why aren't you counting up? What do you need so that we can count it?

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I definitely believe that if we don't open our mouths to speak on our own half, we're never going to be heard. I do believe that as Latinas need to

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find the right voice and unite our voice isn't stand true and solidarity in things that impact us directly. In retrospect, going back to how

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this job has helped me grow as a person, I don't think that I could be as effective as a human, as a mother, as a sister,

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as a family, as a friend. If I didn't interact with the women that I interact with, if I didn't see such,

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the desperate need to have not only people, but to have education, to have an understanding, to have a command of the language.

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And that even though right now the biggest thing is, is the language issue and other issues related to Hispanics.

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It's that there are people out there who are willing to help and there are people out there who do do this out of the kindness of their hearts.

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It's a call of service. So I am, in a sense, the servant to my community and I've been so for a very long time.

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And it's an honor More than it is a privilege to help my fellow Athenians.