She went to a Freeport school board meeting with no plan to speak, wrote her remarks in ten minutes, and her speech on girls’ sports went viral across Maine and beyond.

Chuck Ellis sits down with Julia Deitrick, a junior from Bristol who attends Lincoln Academy, competes in debate, and figure skates and skis. Julia talks about what moved her to stand up at the RSU 5 meeting, waking up to a viral video, speaking at a rally for women’s sports, the TV interviews that followed, and how she’s been treated in Maine high school debate for holding conservative views.