I'm Elaine Kalati and I am reporting for the Daily Signal, and I'd like to introduce you to some pretty sharp cookies. Go ahead.

I'm Darlene Al-Kizo with Inform Policy Advocates.

And I'm Jessica Cabrero with Informed Policy Advocates.

These two beautiful women are advocating through Sacramento with policy.

And the biggest part of our discussion today is what happens when you complain about something? How does that turn

into an actual change in the law, change in legislation? How does that plant a seed and become

something that you can actually change instead of just complain about? Complaining is not the way to get elected. We have a lot of

people complaining at a microphone, just like this one. And what I'm finding is there's very few

solutions. And when pressed in many debates, there's also very few solutions. Why is that? Well, these two young ladies,

if you ask them, are going to tell you a story that's very interesting, and that is how difficult

it is to actually move the needle. What's really important to realize when you run for office

is that you can complain all you want. You have to have a path for change. You have to be a meaningful advocate of policy change.

And you need to know how to write policy. You know how to read policy. And you need to know how to

advocate and lobby for your policy to be adopted and become a law. And if you can't make that

happen, all you're doing is going up to the microphone and

complaining, which we need to stop immediately in California. So I want these two ladies to tell

you their story. I especially want Jessica to tell you about her first day in Sacramento in

2019 because it's absolutely fascinating.

So with that, I am not going to interrupt because the story is riveting.

Oh, sure. I'll kind of promise.

So for me, I've been doing advocacy work specific to education policy since 2003.

And a lot of different legislation has gone through over the years. And in 2019,

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