From a library storytime in Santa Barbara to the sacred dawn calls of Leh, this chapter follows Tirath’s search for voices that rise with truth. Between a farmer’s conference that silences women of color and a mountain prayer that lifts into the sky, she learns what real belonging sounds like. It’s not found in systems or agendas but in honest voices — a woman reading, a man singing, a people praying. Voices Rising reminds us that faith, justice, and love all begin the same way: when someone dares to speak from the heart.