On Thin Ice
After finishing the review, I hung up the phone feeling like everything was going to be okay. Boy, was I wrong.
Telling My Story
After finishing the review, I hung up the phone feeling like everything was going to be okay. Boy, was I wrong.
What happened next I never saw coming. And to this day—15 years later—it still reduces me to tears and is one of the most emotionally jarring, yet uplifting moments of my life.
I always knew I wanted to work on Capitol Hill. Washington, DC was a magical place to me, full of the smartest people in the world working to protect the noble experiment called “democracy.” But in my life plan, I expected to end my career there, not start it.