Yeah, I would say one of the hard things about serving the greater Pacific Northwest is that it's just such a big geography. And when you're talking about Seattle or Portland or more denser urban areas versus, um, you know, more rural areas. The divides are really different in demographics and in, um, you know, political affiliations and all of those things. So, you know, I feel fortunate, though, because I think it's a constant learning curve for our staff to be constantly learning from the regions that we serve about the different issues, challenges, and also different cultural pieces that make, um, certain states or areas unique. But I think what we generally see is that, unfortunately, every single community in the country is impacted by prejudice or bigotry at some point in time. And these kinds of things aren't unique. What we've seen a lot of trends that I've noticed over the past couple of years that I've been with the ADL, a few of them are that schools are microcosms for society at large. So when you see hate and extremism becoming more normalized, they become more normalized in school, and we see a lot more acts of bias and xenophobia and anti-Semitism and racism in K through 12 environments. I also just think on a more macro picture, both nationally and in all of the different states we work in, we see that hate and extremism are growing, and that people who are affiliated with hate groups or who have hateful ideologies are a lot more emboldened than they were a couple of years ago, back when they were lurking in private chat rooms and in online spaces. And we've seen people really come out in public and kind of push the lines of what's acceptable, be able to use hateful language and engage in hateful activity in a much more, um, a much more out there kind of way. Um, some examples are that, you know, years ago, you would have never seen, um, a white supremacist group actively recruiting on college campuses by putting propaganda out or putting propaganda near schools or in communities. I mean, that would have really been relegated to much more private and closed off spaces. But we've really seen the normalization and skyrocketing of hate and bigotry in the kind of data in the activity that we're seeing. And I think another trend that we also see is that if you don't properly train law enforcement, if you don't speak out and educate the public, and if you don't have strong laws that really capture what's happening, underreporting is also going to be a huge issue. That's going to be a big challenge in understanding the actual issue that's unfolding on the ground. So I would say those are some, I think, common challenges that we see regardless of the communities that we serve. And I would gesture to say those kinds of trends really exist across the country, and not only here in the Pacific Northwest.
