Josh Moskoviz for TNAA Committee Communication

Speaker: Josh Moskoviz, Founding Member of DEIB

Josh Moskoviz: Happy Pride Month TNAA family. This is, Josh Moskoviz, coming from Sunny Palm Springs, California. Happy Pride. And Congratulations on your first ever in-person Pride Mixer. It's really, really amazing to see how far you all have come in such a short time. As you may or may not know. I was a founding member of the DE&I committee, which started in late 2020 early 2021. So in just 2.5 years, you are already at this level, which is really and truly amazing. So, uh kudos to all of you on the DE&I committee and kudos to all of you attending the Pride Mixer and being out and proud and just being yourselves. For those of you that don't know, I was at TNA A from 2012 to 2021. Jewish, Gay Boy from New York, via San Francisco, when I joined the organization. As you can imagine, somebody from my background going into the American Heartland, and for all intents and purposes, I think of Bible country was a little bit daunting at first. But I'm very happy to say in my nine years at TNAA, it was a very cultivating and encouraging environment. I was not out when I initially came to the organization. Well, let, let me rephrase I was out but I wasn't out to the organization and in a very short time, I was out and proud and very forthcoming with my personal life and it was embraced by everybody from the top down at the time was Gene Scott. Now it's Tim McKenzie. It's really great to see again everything with DE&I, and where it's come. I hope the best for all of you. I hope you're having a great time in the mixer and I can't wait to hear about what else you're all gonna do there in the future. Much love, to you all. Talk soon!