Krystal Weigl

Personal Introduction

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved to debate. Not for argument's ​sake; always for speaking up for the kids who couldn't. At four years old, she was ​“Star of the Week” at Professor Bear’s Daycare. Her favorite color was purple, ​favorite food was strawberry, and she wanted to be a lawyer. She was a Grade A, ​Type A, preschooler on a mission. For me, starting out as a licensed attorney was a dream come true. Opportunities ​appeared magically and I found myself in the very spaces where debate was ​encouraged and even admired. I tried my hand at speaking up in these places. ​Advocating was encouraged, as long as it was done the same way it had always ​been done. More importantly, the advocating needed to be about the same things ​it had always been about and for the same people. While some spaces left a bad taste, others showed just how life changing ​advocating could be for the people around us. None was bitter enough to spoil ​that intuitive sense of standing up and showing up for what's right. Some things ​just don’t change. There is something else that has stayed the same; my favorite movie, The Lorax. ​A mantra that's served as a guiding light since, “Unless someone like you cares a ​whole awful lot, it’s not going to get better. It’s not.”