Hi guys, welcome back to Funnel weekdays podcast. I'm your host, Jenna Palik, and in today's

episode, I am joined by Kate Snedeker, who is a current student at University of Texas

at Austin, and she is the founder of Gray for Glial Blastoma, a nonprofit that she founded

in 2021 in honor of her dad. Hi guys, so excited to be here. Thank you for having me, Jenna.

Of course, I'm so honored to have you here today. You have such a beautiful story. You're

so inspiring and motivating, especially for like younger girls who will be listening to

this podcast and myself included. So I can't wait to share your story how you got started

with your nonprofit. Yeah, thank you. I'm excited to share.

All right. Well, let's get right into it. So Kate, tell us all about you. Where are you

from? What are you studying in school? So I am from the Washington DC area in Bethesda,

Maryland, and I grew up there. And when I was starting to apply for colleges, I knew I

wanted to be somewhere warm. So Texas was at the top of my list. And now I attend school

here, and I'm a junior, and I'm studying, you think community studies and business,

which is basically just kind of a social work degree focused on humanities and community

and stuff like that with a little business on the side. Okay. So you're from Washington,

DC, you found yourself here in Texas. Yeah. How have you transitioned so far being in school?

It's been, it's been pretty good. It definitely was a big chance I shouldn't begin with,

especially because my freshman year was COVID year. So it was definitely weird. But now I feel

perfectly comfortable here. And I mean, I love it. The weather is unbeatable. There's so much to

do. It's so fun. I mean, same reasons you're still here. It's hard to leave. It really is. Where

else will we even want to go? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So you started school when I actually was

graduating school. So we both had transitional phases in peak COVID 2020. So for me, I was

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