jeri williams joins us. thank you so much. an -- it's impossible for me to even comprehend your story and what you have been through. how did you do it? how did you get to where you are now after going through that hell? >> well, i got stabbed and left for dead and i got out of the life. my pimp was arrested on different charges. i had to go through therapies and hundreds of aa and na meetings. lots of therapy. there was an organization called the council for prostitution alternatives. i ended up living in a shelter for 14 months, going through full-blown posttraumatic stress disorder. i had to get a job so i could get my children. and just worked really hard. i became an organizer with the workers organizing committee fighting toxics, which was my first way of fighting back abusers. and went from that organize working with jobs with justice, chairing jobs with justice and then working to be the executive director of the environmental justice action group. fighting pollution in portland and then got asked to work at the city.