Both Harris and President Joe Biden appear to have taken a back seat as Trump and his team prepare to take over government in January. Harris’s first public remarks since her concession speech came in a highly criticized video published by the Democratic National Committee in late November.

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Harris, however, sounded optimistic and upbeat Monday during her appearance at the Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, D.C.

After detailing the Biden administration’s work to expand healthcare coverage for Native Americans, the vice president honored a “group of extraordinary young Native leaders” whom she met with prior to taking the stage.

Harris then recounted some of the advice she gave the group, joking that “they didn’t ask for.”

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“You will many times be the only one that looks like you in a room, be it a board room, a lecture hall, a meeting room, a congressional hearing,” she stated. “When you walk in that room, we expect and demand that you will walk in that room chin up, shoulders back, carrying the voices of all of us who are so proud that you are there and are counting on you to lead.

“Here’s one of the things I love most about our young leaders. They are rightly impatient. They are not waiting for someone else to lead. They are prepared to lead,” Harris concluded. “And so I say, in the midst of challenges, in the midst of what might sometimes be a profound sense of uncertainty, let us always continue to have faith in our young leaders, in their future, and in our collective future.”

You can watch Harris’s remarks in full below.