And then if you could just pull this up a little bit. Yeah, you might not have. There you go. Okay.

Is that good?

Yep.

I see how close you got yours.

Yep. That's perfect.

Okay.

So you're doctor Levy.

Mm hmm.

But you were gonna start telling me how you got into health and wellness.

Okay. Well, to go back quite a few decades, I got involved in health as a college student. I was majored in nursing. I became a registered nurse in the early eighties, but at the same time, I came from a neighborhood, the 53206 zip code area. I was fortunate to come from a dual parent household. My dad was a blue collar worker working at Bersia's Erie as the first black crane operator in Muskego, Wisconsin. And then my mom was an educator. So again, they had to balance the life of.

It was five of us at some point in time. I went through a health battle as a young child and decided that through my hospitalizations and multiple surgeries, I wanted to become a nurse. I changed and said I wanted to go to medical school. But then I was impregnated, my husband and I, at an early age, right out of high school. He was a few years older than I was. But anyways, long story short, went on, got the support of my family and his family. We married. Our daughter was four at the time, and I was still in college, taking my nursing curriculum, and the rest became.

So even as a young mom, you stayed on the track of going to college?

Going to college. It was my destiny, should I say, to make sure that I do that. And just ended up changing my major at the time, not understanding the conceptual framework of academic moving from undergraduate to graduate and going to medical school. My nursing degree could have gotten me into taking the MCAT and moving on, because a lot of my colleagues now actually have gone that pathway. So with that being said, it became a best interest for the family because husband and I married, and he continued to work and take care of us, and I was continuing school, got the first job in the hospital, but just to backtrack just an inch or two. What inspired me to become a nurse was my late mentor, Justine McCourt. Justine was the first black nurse that I had ever laid eyes on because of my multiple hospitalizations. She went from taking care of me to.

And I didn't know at that point in time that she was one of the nurse leaders. So I was, like I said, about 1314 years old when all of these incidents occurred and was just really encouraged and intrigued by seeing a woman of color. We wore white back then, and all white. And I said, if nothing else, I want to do it because I want to wear a white uniform. So my career catapulted itself, went on, and did all of my clinical experiences in the areas. I think the biggest eye opening experience that got me into the area of community engagement was working for United Methodist Children's services as a nurse practitioner for women's health and infant health. And it was community based over on 24th and keys. We were literally a grassroots organization that was providing parenting classes, parenting skills, and just everything for single moms inside of the city of Milwaukee.

And so what happened to that mission? Cause I know UMC's is still around, he's still around, and it's now known as rooted and rising. But that mission of being like grassroots parenting classes on 24th and Kyiv, when did it trend? What happened to that?

It. Well, our late executive director, Perry Hite, was the executive director. And you may remember a name, I don't know if you're old enough, but Joseph Winston, he was the founding director, executive director of Northcott Neighborhood House.