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Good, good, good, how are you today?I’m well, I’m great, I’m healthy. OK, anything else? And even if you complain, nobody’s listening.That’s true. That’s a lot. But I’m happy you listened. And today I and so are all of our great freedom followers. So everyone today we have on this panel and again, I’m keeping her name. I don’t want you to forget it when we get off this call. And she is an awesome woman to end this month on with all the amazing women that we’ve had. She is just fills my heart any time I think about the work she’s doing for women in the South. So also she passed a very important bill that we will get into later on in this conversation. So can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?Sure. My name is Pamela. When I am an alien from right here in the big A where we make history and turn things blue, shook it up this presidential election today. So I’m very proud of my home state from for that, I am the founder of Restore Her. I’m a co-founder of the formerly incarcerated graduate’s next network. I created the Dignity Leadership Alliance. I wear a lot of hats. I do a lot of things. Not going to bore you with all the titles and all that I do. But the most important thing that you need to know about me is that I don’t take no for an answer. And when it comes to things that are important to me that I have a passion about, and that’s about my people and the treatment of my people, I go hard in the paint and I don’t stop till I get it done.Ok, talk about it. OK, so let’s talk about what restor like you said, you’re the founder of Risk for her. Tell us what that means.Restore Her is a policy advocacy reentry, nonprofit, nonprofit organization. What we do is we address the social determinants of criminalization. And for people that don’t understand what that means, that means that we just basically fight for reproductive justice, dignity and leadership of justice impacted women that have been formerly incarcerated, that are currently incarcerated. They have convictions. But I have never seen, you know, the inside of a sale and women that are affected by trauma. So we work with these ladies to enhance their lives and then we partner with them to change laws and to, you know, just improve conditions for us population of women here in the south.Ok, so you do all this great work for these women and you put yourself out there to be open, to really tell your story and help these women tell their story and function in the society that we live in and right now. So can you tell us a little bit about your story? Have you ever been incarcerated?Yes, ma’am. So like I said, I’m from I’m from Atlanta, which means I’m from the south. So I come from what you call a typical Southern black family, which means no money, low income and uneducated. I was the first person out of my family to graduate high school and to continue on graduate college and to own a business, become an entrepreneur. That was something that I had always aspired to do as a as a kid because I understood the dynamics of my generation. And I wanted to change that. I didn’t want to be known for that. So having accomplished all that, I was a nurse. I have I was a registered nurse. I have over fifteen years of professional experience. I attended Spelman. So basically, you know, I set the bar for myself and accomplish those things. So I was like at the peak of my life building on top of the world, like I, you know, everything I aspire for I had done. And then it all came crashing down because again, I am the first person in my family to own a business. So people that came from where I came from didn’t own a business. So when I was having issues with my business, I didn’t have anyone that I could go to to get hel...