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My primary engagement with ACRL has been through participating in the Residency Interest Group (RIG) as a member, team lead, and convener. In my experience, RIG has been a space for creativity, peer mentorship, empathetic leadership, collaboration, problem solving, and equity-informed work. I'm continuously inspired by my RIG colleagues who lead from where they are to collaboratively address the changing needs of library residents. In the last few years, residents have run privacy-informed mentorship discussions, published an open letter to administrators and program coordinators to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residents, created a Diversity Residency Toolkit, and developed more transparent processes for leadership recruitment. All of these initiatives center the resident and honor the complex realities of what it means to be an employee in a term-limited position, especially for those with marginalized identities. This work is hard and it's better because we do it together.