but it really came to a point in the spaces that i encountered in new york city including columbia university rye went to graduate school of the otherness of where i came from somehow in those places even in the american story where we tell ourselves but there's nobody from where i am from. was in our culture so that was a formative experience so maybe somebody can help me but there is a quote that i didn't become a kansan until i went to new york. [laughter] and i remember. i was the kid in school very ambitious, focused, straight a's and on warpath of accomplishments and you will see how that relates to the class issue. so i was the kid the teachers that she will leave to say that she got out and that is a phrase i take issue with but when i was in new york surrounded by the ohio version in west virginia version of me and they became new yorkers breathing a sigh of relief are meant to be my whole life but for me it was the opposite to fortified my sense of belonging which was never a place i thought to escape but in particular what my industry required to accomplish the things i wanted to do bu