TARA FREIMUND 

This is always a difficult section for me to write. I can throw out a lot of words: mother, activist, community organizer, BRCA1 carrier, millenial, midwesterner, all of which are true.

 

Each of us, has our own categories, and we are all of those things.  But we are more. It's the more that is difficult to describe, especially due to the fact that we continue to learn, grow and transform as we age. Our brains are designed to do so all the way through to the end. So how do we describe that which IS in an ever-present state of change? Well, with a lot of humility, I hope. Every campaign I've worked has given me new insights about myself and the world around me, every friend, ally, the experience of motherhood, especially with kids who have life long medical challenges, not to mention my own medical challenges. 

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I can say this with confidence: meeting each one of you, connecting, listening, learning and empathizing will affect us both. My intention is that you feel stronger, more confident and safer in the everyday decisions you make, the way you live, care for yourself, your family, and community. 

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It's cliche to say now that no one is coming to save us, that we are the one's we've been waiting for, but this is a reality that I continue to run into again and again, so lets link arms and and turn the next corner together. I am truly excited to meet you.