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can you just tell me a little bit about

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yourself what's your name and when did

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you work for crossroads sure so my name

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is sue me Montgomery I started with

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crossroads in 2012 when we started the

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neighborhood history project and I

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stayed on for 2013 and 14 as a fellow

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and then in 2015 after I graduated I was

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staff kind of a supervisor for I worked

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for Center for transforming communities

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and I was their staff person who

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supervised the fellows during the week

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and the high schooler's awesome can you

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tell me a little bit how crossroads has

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impacted your life

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sure so going into a small liberal arts

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college I had no idea really what I

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wanted to do knew I wanted to go to

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college but starting as a crossroads

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fellow really transformed my life

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because without crossroads I wouldn't

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have made the networking connections

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that I needed or figured out what I

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really wanted to do I ended up being a

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Religious Studies major here and thanks

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to Russ Whittington who suggested that I

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do the fellowship I ended up loving it

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really falling in love with the idea of

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getting narratives from our community

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and continued that for four more years

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can you tell me a specific story that

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just you want to talk about of your time

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here crossroads oh wow there are so many

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let's see in training I really thought

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it was great for the crossroads fellows

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to go into the neighborhood of

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Binghampton and go on the neighborhood

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walk with Kinney lada that was my first

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experience my first year really getting

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to know what asset based Community

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Development was

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and how it can really create sustainable

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change for a neighborhood and I love

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that concept and I ended up being able

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to teach that and that's awesome speech

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thank you so much for working across

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this thanks for being interviewed this

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is sweet

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sure cool thank you thanks