At 25 years old, Jennifer Lawrence may be an Oscar-winning actress, billion-dollar franchise front woman, and reigning American sweetheart. But for several North Oldham Middle and High School students living in Lawrence’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, the Hunger Games star is so much more. She’s a relatable career inspiration, a delightful ambassador for the city, and an example of a Louisville girl who was able to attain all of her wildest dreams before the age of 30.

So when Zoe Kuhn realized that her town had failed to formally celebrate its most famous native – as she lights up movie screens around the globe and uses her perch as the highest – paid actress in the world to do good for the less fortunate – the then pre – teen decided to do something about it.

With a group of of friends, Kuhn formed “Lawrence’s Ladies” and went about raising the $10,000 necessary to install a 30’ by 40’ banner of Lawrence on the city’s Kentucky Center on Saturday, along with Louisville’s other hometown heroes like Muhammad Ali, Diane Sawyer, and Colonel Sanders—an endeavor that took over a year and culminated with the banner’s unveiling this past weekend. In celebration of the feat, we reached out to Kuhn over e-mail to find out about the world’s biggest J.Law fans, inquire about joining the “Lawrence’s Ladies” gang ourselves, and see if they’ve personally heard from Lawrence.

How did you go about rallying your friends to join the cause?

After getting ideas from Mike Sheehy and my dad, Scott Kuhn, for how to go about fundraising, I made a group text and sent an e-mail to my friends, explaining what I wanted to do and why. After weeks of planning around everyone’s busy schedules, we finally had a meeting at my house to decide our name, plan our social media, decide on some fundraisers, and figure out what we were going to use to keep track of our money (GoFundMe).

How much money did you end up raising in total? Did you raise money any way besides the GoFundMe page?

I think it’s been shared in the media that the banner production and installation cost around $10,000. Once we got the effort kicked off, donations went either into the GoFundMe account we set up or directly to the Greater Louisville Pride Foundation. From the beginning we promised that any excess funds would be given to Jennifer’s charity. As of right now, we should be able to donate nearly $900 to the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation.