Stephanie Chiarello: Ballet to Ballots

A self-proclaimed former (and possibly current) rabble rouser, Chiarello of always asking "why?!". For that matter, demanding why, possibly dressed as a train engineer; listen for the full story about how she started early with the big talk about the leadership, and possibly not quite all the details.

Chiarello plucks out the perfect song lyric, that encapsulates the bittersweet reality of the path not trodden. For her it had been the apparent end of a ballet career, but that hasn't stopped her from dancing.

Chiarello explains her approach to a balance of punching up to power, while maintaining a commitment to nonpartisanship, in the meantime getting possibly an illegal level of excited about congressional process.

Chiarello lets us know that sometimes it takes a special kind of machine to make a special kind of show, and how the (can I say Swiftie?) drags them kicking and singing to the stage.