Emmy In San Francisco

Hello! I’m Emmy and this is possibly one of the happiest moments of my life

this is how it happened…

It represents

ate Bridge in San Francisco. When I send this photo to my father a few moments later, he tells me that it is the furthest West any of our small Anglo Irish family have ever been.

I am in San Francisco as a guest of one of the world’s largest tech companies to talk to them about community. They have flown me across the ocean to talk to them and I have a lot to say.

But this is not where my story begins. The smile I am

 

It’s early 2018 and I am standing, as you can see, in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. When I send this photo to my father a few moments later, he tells me that it is the furthest West any of our small Anglo Irish family have ever been.

I am in San Francisco as a guest of one of the world’s largest tech companies to talk to them about community. They have flown me across the ocean to talk to them and I have a lot to say.

But this is not where my story begins. The smile I am wearing represents all the hard work, hard lessons and dogged refusal to give up that brought me to this point.