“You become a number, you become invisible, you become less than human….we as the experts, the individuals who have lived experience, need to begin those conversations and tell our story in a way that brings support but also creates the visual so that you see me and not what you want to see but what I bring to you…we are powerful and strong women, and we have a voice, and society creates barriers to keep us from raising our voice but we are stronger than that, we are more resilient than that.”