How I Got a Meeting With the Mayor’s Office

This is what I carried into City Hall. I made a folder like this for every person who would be in that room — each one holding the report and the documentation I’d spent months gathering. But the most important thing was on the front. I put my daughter’s face there on purpose. Before anyone opened a folder, before they read a single word, they had to see her. Not a case number, not a label, not the person they’d decided she was. Her. My beautiful Brittney. They needed to see a daughter, and they did.This is what I carried into City Hall. I made a folder like this for every person who would be in that room — each one holding the report and the documentation I’d spent months gathering. But the most important thing was on the front. I put my daughter’s face there on purpose. Before anyone opened a folder, before they read a single word, they had to see her. Not a case number, not a label, not the person they’d decided she was. Her. My beautiful Brittney. They needed to see a daughter, and they did.