While Amanda Sudano clearly has a beautiful life, both with her family and her career, it's not always sunshine and roses all the time. Sadly, Sudano has had to deal with her share of racism, as she's a Black woman living in the United States. "I used to get terrified if I saw a car with a Confederate flag in the back coming up behind me," she revealed in an interview with Sojourners. "I was so scared, I would pull over because what if this car tries to mess with me, like I'm just a little brown girl in the South." That's just horrible.

To that end, when white supremacists held a rally in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017 (via Time), Sudano found herself deeply affected by those events. "It brought up a lot of stuff in me," she continued, noting that it did the same for her husband, who was raised in Jacksonville, Fla. "Even within myself, it was kind of a healing crisis." We hope you never have to feel that way again, Amanda.