on america or an american position in detroit michigan so i did that for about a year and after that i came back to seattle that's where my family is so i came back to seattle and worked a steel children's hospital while i america corps because i've always been interested in service being able to give back to the community and of the same time getting work experience in the field of public health and also detroit just because i wanted to get something out of the box and challenge myself and i thought being away from home and being in a city that was completely different than seattle would give me that but truly and that was definitely true so let's switch gears a little bit and tuck about  from the list serv with the e c s as a support group and they were looking into possibly organizing some sort of event to celebrate the march international women's month and that was just something that just clicked with me and i was interested in it so a stronger attending the support groups meetings and talking to them and and through that conversation the idea of doing an open mike came up and so yeah so of of kind of i was in ethiopia of the really i started doing short stories when i was anything that's all right and then i would share it with my family members and i got support from there you know to keep writing and they listened to my story once i wrote it and i was reading it to them but then also when i moved to the united states that was when i was in one crate i started attending roosevelt high school and i had a creative writing teacher mr no the english language yes of the universe but that was a very good experience and i the more i did it the more i really liked it so i just after that i been writing everson so do you write and i'm hired more than i'm hired in english still or only you know mostly i write  bit about that i started about two years ago when i was in the trade and that was a way for me to share with friends and family in seattle about my experience but after that a kind of been using it as a way to share my poetry so for anybody that's what i know but just the way that she tries to connect with the culture through her music that way really influences me just as somebody who inspires to be you know work on art i really think that she's pretty amazing that's sort of combine public health public policy because what i'm really interested in using public health research to advocate for policies so that's sort of where i would see myself and i definitely see myself still pursuing art that's something that has always been in my life right and my family always tells me to do that so yeah i definitely think that especially sort of being an immigrant in there says we have very unique stories there that are not really available to and in the in the main public dear daughter you may turn out dark tough like my own father your skin shining darker than a summer night i like your grandmother you have milk chocolate skin who quietly carry the world on your back the summer when they see you are a minority you show them a map because the numbers in the pictures say otherwise when they say you are disadvantaged let's let's change that that is a death bed and you don't plan to sleep on it urge you to join us and become a member of the community in seattle we have a membership form applications for you within the hour so please consider being a member also there is an event  and one o'clock this is not put on by the community center but it will be held here so you are invited to attend and in addition on saturday april twentieth from ten to four pm hiv testing dental held checkups mental health checkups and it's all free of charge so we encourage those of you who need this service or know of someone who needs this service to come in or bring your parents or other people in your community no insurance required so if you are interested information will be in the bank and the phone number that you can call for the mammogram and start call cancer screening to do have to call ahead and let us her name was faith she came on and performed a poem called where am i from and the audience was really blown away her poem actually won a poetry competition with the seattle public schools so we're very proud of her but then we also had poets that were you know that sort of they're pretty real poets famous within the seattle scene a couple of them sell them on and then like that and we so we asked a couple of questions we give people clues about these famous if you'll be and many to european women and we tried to have them guess who this person is we had drumming up performance by a group of african she's a very famous radio host in ethiopia and she came on and talked about her role model so it was a very diverse kind of open mike where we had very different kind of activities and i think that was really good i think the audience really enjoyed that and i did as well and definitely so in our international women's day we're also keeping our apts the woman who are still struggling to get equal rights and ethiopia and specially in the rural area ethiopia how can we change that you know i think that's a pretty big question and we all sort of have a role to play i feel like as a sieve woman myself i see that there's different struggles in different parts of the world so there's not only an issue in women in the rural area but a kind of manifest itself in various communities in seattle and i d s in other parts so i feel like  the best thing to do is really to think of ourselves as allies and kind of sharing a common common a struggle so i think there's various way to do it locally the way we did it here was just sort of making sure that people are aware that there is internationals moments month and the way we took on the event was to to celebrate this so i think people will do it differently and it's definitely a big issue to deal with and i hope that people feel inspired to kind of do their part and i think that's the way that we can kind of solve that issue of women's equity is that we all do our part again definitely and  our conversation i want to ask you one more question and it's about you know what advice that you have to for our younger generation in terms of pursuing a higher education i think it's definitely important to a person higher education whatever your easy road for a lot of people but it's definitely worth the pursuit and i think you know i encourage families to support their young children from very young on to read to really pursue their interests with an education