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Hello and welcome back to another Mormon Stories interview.

This is a joint interview with the Feminist Mormon Housewives podcast.

And I'd really like to thank John Delan for helping set this up and allowing us to do this.

Now normally John would be doing this interview, but because of schedule and time, he wasn't able to do that.

So I hope you'll permit me to interview and instead I know that John is a big part of Mormon Stories,

but I appreciate those who have tuned in and are listening today.

And I'm really excited to introduce our guest.

Now our guest is Nana Mormon actually has very little interaction with Mormonism.

So you might wonder why I would be bringing on a non-Mormon who knows very little bit, very little about Mormonism.

And before I introduce her, I just want to kind of talk about how this interview even happened.

So as many of you know, I'm the Assistant Director for the Sunstone Education Foundation.

And every year we do a conference called the Borderlands Conference where we try to maybe amplify the voices of those who we are not used to hearing in Mormonism.

A lot of us, a lot of you out there listening have often felt like you don't have a voice in Mormonism and borderlands seeks to sort of amplify those voices.

And so we've been doing this conference and sometime this last year I was watching a TED Talk and I saw this wonderful woman giving a TED Talk and I was transformed by her poetry and by her speech.

And so I thought this is the woman that we have to bring to Sunstone and we have to have her talk to Mormons because what she has to say is so helpful and so beautiful and so necessary to Mormonism.

And so I sent her a message and said, I know this is super strange and you don't know anything about this little organization but will you come out? And she said yes.

So then I was, you know, had conversations with John Dillin and John said, yeah, we'd absolutely love to have her on an interview.

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