In the Angel Studios 2024 movie "Cabrini" set in 1889, an Italian immigrant woman comes to America with a fierce passion for helping marginalized children. Charged with a seemingly impossible task, she perseveres through each obstacle. While watching the movie, I felt angry throughout at the injustices faced. Afterwards, I felt inspired by the truly amazing life's work of Mother Francesca Cabrini in this biopic. Her vision and transformative mark on the world created a new trajectory. Mother Cabrini stood up to misogyny, prejudice, rigid ideology, and harsh institutional policy meant to stop her, yet she kept going, persisted, never gave up hope, and realized her own power through voice when others tried to silence, cripple, and shut down the efforts of what she and others worked hard to accomplish. Our stories matter. Getting real in adult education is being safe enough to be who we are, where we are. Trauma-informed pedagogy allows a student to show up as they are in an educational environment of acceptance. Whether we are talking about my grandparents' immigration to America from Sicily, Italy in the early 1900's fleeing poverty for the perception of a better life and my connection to them now through dual citizenship, the "Cabrini" movie, or immigrant issues we face globally today, the actions one takes as a student, professor, or administrator make a difference. Advocating for victims of abuse of any form changes the trajectories of lives. [For the full proceedings, see ED666619.]