voting rights section, the civil rights division and you're by de facto a champion of civil rights, nobody questions what side you're on and what a transformation when i became a federal prosecutor in the criminal context and being questioned about allegiance and personal battles between what i was ordered to do and where my moral compass pointed. to watch a parade of thousands of black men and women at one time could i count the number of white defendants and i wouldn't need all five fingers to do so knowing there wasn't a monopoly on crime but looking at the decisions, the police decisions and knowing those things and weighing against my lived experience as a black woman as a mother, as a wife, as a human being and constantly at odds trying to reconcile the two and thinking who i believed i would be when tested with the decisions. i gave the audience a real insight into what that feels like to make those choices and