Four years ago, while living in DC, concerned about climate change, environments, healthcare, and women's rights, I marched on Washington with men and women, young and old, theist and atheist, straight and queer, of all colours against erosion of society's moral fabric and the rhetoric of device and unscientific conspiracy theories that are at the cusp of being normalised in this post-truth world. This is what made me run for Parliament in 2017 in my last semester of my MBA as I shuttled every few weeks between Washington and New Zealand, doing my assignments at the San Francisco airport in transit. The question that everyone asked me though, is why the Labour Party? Well, my family's journey in New Zealand, starting from my father's homelessness to receiving my Fulbright scholarship, has been full of perseverance and is a true example of Labour's motto of providing opportunity to all Kiwis.