I chose this path knowing it would require me to endure hard seasons—not out of naïveté, but because I understood early on that meaning rarely shows up where comfort lives. There would be stretches of scarcity, long spaces between certainty and doubt, between who I was and who I was struggling to become. Seasons where belief would have to do the work money couldn’t. I accepted that early, even if I didn’t fully understand the cost.

Five years ago, before GANGGANG was known, the now-founders brought 18 artists together to create the Black Lives Matter mural on historic Indiana Avenue. To show what the new arts organization would and could do, that single moment reached hundreds of thousands of people and sparked a cultural shift in Indianapolis.