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What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. I'm Tlaidia O. Edwards. I'm the president of the Greater Bond Neighborhood Association. I came here from Miami, went to FAMU, met my husband there, and so we were looking for a home. The home that we purchased was both of our number two. I didn't even realize it was bond that the neighborhood was even called bond. We thought we would live there for a little while, and then we would run it out and build our forever home. I went to Tallahassee's neighborhood leadership academy. They were talking about sustainability and sustainability. And mostly that was about environment. And so as I sat there, I'm thinking like, if we can sustain ecosystems and trees and all these things, my family was rare to my neighborhood. We have a two-parent family. I was there at home, my mom, my husband worked. He was really dad to a lot of the kids on our block, and to the students he was teaching. And I said, sustainability is also in families and communities. And so I began to take ownership and staying in my community, so that kids and other people in the community could see what sustainability looked like in family. And so that's when it became personal for me. And I found at the Greater Bond Neighborhood Association, there were really 18 associations before I started. And so the neighborhood was split off in so many different groups. That's why the name Greater Bond, to create a sense of unity that we could all come together. And that was three years ago. I wanted to be an attorney. And so I guess this is advocacy flipped upside down, right? It's community work. And so I think about that. And I plan to be clicking my heels on the walls of Justice Inn, Washington DC. But I'm here in Tallahassee making a difference in. It's hard, but it's worth it. I'm Tilly the Edwards, President of the Greater Bond Neighborhood Association. You're listening to voices that inspire.