Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)

D.C.-area mom and teacher Kristin Mink told Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to resign when she saw him on Monday at a local cafe.

By Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he had accepted Pruitt’s resignation.

“It’s pretty amazing,” says Mink with a laugh. She learned the news while she was on the phone, and her husband got a text about it. “He told me and I started jumping up and down,” she says.

But she’s humble about her role in Pruitt’s decision. “It’s not like I can take all the credit for this,” Mink says. “The great majority goes to effective fact-based research of quality journalists who exposed the depth of Scott Pruitt’s corruption.”

Pruitt has been ensnared in a growing list of ethics scandals since becoming the EPA administrator, including the $43,000 he paid for a phone booth at the EPA offices, allegedly trying to score a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife, and meeting with industry offcials in potential violation of anti-lobbying laws. There are currently at least 13 federal inquiries examining his conduct and spending as the EPA top dog.

Mink approached Pruitt with her young child in her arms on Monday when she saw him at Teaism. “We deserve to have someone at the EPA who actually does protect our environment, someone who actually does believe in climate change and takes it seriously,” she told him. “I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out.”

Pruitt did not respond to Mink in the moment. In his resignation letter, he writes that “the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.”

Mink says her excitement about the news dulled when she learned about Pruitt’s replacement, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who will serve as acting administrator until the Senate confirms Trump’s next nominee.

Still, though, Mink says that she hopes her experience “empowers everyone who’d like to speak to their public officials. If you have something to say, say it.”