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Rushion interviews Ashley Christopher, who founded "HBCU Week" to create academic and professional Black Excellence opportunities. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: we go, Miss Lawrence. She's out of Utah, but she's
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  Speaker 1: because I get a lot of people when we shine.
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  Speaker 1: You know that more HBCUs out there. Hey, you come
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  Speaker 1: on my show. Anybody who graduates from HPC, you can
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  Speaker 1: come on my show. My show is open to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the word out about how great
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  Speaker 1: academic opportunity and how great the academic opportunities are being
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  Speaker 1: made at HBCUs. And this is one of these shows
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  Speaker 1: I've dedicated specifically the conversation of HBCUs. Like I tell everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go to an HPCU. I went to a PWI,
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  Speaker 1: which is predominantly white institution of what they call a
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  Speaker 1: p WI. And it was the university he used to,
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  Speaker 1: which is now ranked number one and in basketball. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: they win the Big March Madness this year. But my
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  Speaker 1: next guest, she is also an HBCU graduate, but she's
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  Speaker 1: doing it big in the state of Utah. Samon Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: She's the program manager at the University of Utah's HPCU
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  Speaker 1: Impact Program. Now, she's originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, where
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  Speaker 1: she attended college in DC at Howard University where she
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  Speaker 1: received her Bachelor of Arts and Strategic Legal and Management Communications,
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  Speaker 1: So you know she can talk. HBCU Impact is a
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  Speaker 1: summer internship program that allow students at HBCUs to connect
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  Speaker 1: with companies in Utah. This will give companies access to
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  Speaker 1: more diverse talent with the hopes of them having full
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  Speaker 1: time employment opportunities at their company. The companies paid for
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  Speaker 1: the students flights listen to them. The companies pay for
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  Speaker 1: the students flights House and the salary over the summer.
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  Speaker 1: In return, the University of Utah will provide access to
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  Speaker 1: HBCU students, housing, the campus, community connections, and weakly activities
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  Speaker 1: such as professional development and community service. Impact is an
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  Speaker 1: acronym for internship mentorship, professional development, academic achievement, and community service,
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  Speaker 1: as well as talent. Enrichmond, please welcome to Money Making
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  Speaker 1: Conversations masterclass. She's straight out of Utah by way of
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. Some own Lawrence. Hey you knowing it's Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: I'm great, Thank you so much for having you today. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's HBCU day for me today. Now I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing HBCU Conversations now. Now you and you taught you're tall,
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  Speaker 1: You're tak you taw. I've been to Utah. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: telling everybody I've been in Utah. I should just stand up,
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  Speaker 1: come up, comedy. And I went to Utah one time,
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  Speaker 1: and I would tell you that town closed down and
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  Speaker 1: every time it's Salt Lake City you talk. Let me
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  Speaker 1: just tell you, not just the old state. I went
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  Speaker 1: to Salt Lake City, you talk, beautiful city, beautiful. I
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  Speaker 1: love snow people, but I can't ski though. I just
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  Speaker 1: love snow. I just loved the picturesque and the look
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  Speaker 1: of snow. One of my favorite states is Colorado, and
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  Speaker 1: so when I went there, all activities basically ceased for
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  Speaker 1: me socially. At ten am. Now that's a whole time ago.
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  Speaker 1: Now is it still hot and popping? Is it popping
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  Speaker 1: after ten o'clock at Salt Lake City today? Um? On
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  Speaker 1: the weekends sometimes coming from DC where I could get
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  Speaker 1: tacos at two am, and now I have to eat
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  Speaker 1: my food by nine. I I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about this program HBCU Impact, because I
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I was in college. I remember, I'm
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  Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas, and I went there down to Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: and I met with this company and they had they
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  Speaker 1: kind of had a program like this, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: when they were trying to get diversity, they were trying
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  Speaker 1: to bring in more people of color into the company.
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  Speaker 1: And I worked off shore. I worked eighty five miles
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  Speaker 1: out in the Gulf. I would do that for two
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  Speaker 1: weeks or two weeks off and I was doing engineering work. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this program here is in at tied to the University
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  Speaker 1: of you talk. Can you tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about the University of you talk before we get started.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So University Ties is located right on the
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  Speaker 1: hill in Salt Lake City. It's an R one institution
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  Speaker 1: and it's just slowly growing to this great economic development
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  Speaker 1: and this is a unique partnership with an R one
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  Speaker 1: institution reaching out these HBCUs and developing these partnerships. Now
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  Speaker 1: when you now you you are a person who was
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  Speaker 1: a part of this program. You participated two years before,
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  Speaker 1: so you're not a person just over the program, the
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  Speaker 1: program manager. You are a person who was I guess
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  Speaker 1: benefited in the program. Correct. Yeah, So I went through
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  Speaker 1: the program twice and then at the end of my
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  Speaker 1: second term, Day offered me the job to manage the program.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been doing that since twenty twenty one. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so how did you how did they how did you
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  Speaker 1: find out about the program? So in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: this is when the program was starting, and I had
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  Speaker 1: an internship class that I had to take and Thorough Site,
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  Speaker 1: which was one of the first companies to come participate
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  Speaker 1: in the program. They ran my class and you were
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  Speaker 1: talking about this new opportunity. It's like, Yeah, the University
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  Speaker 1: of Utah is trying to get more diversity out here.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to pay for your flights, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: pay for your housing, we'll pay you a salary, And
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  Speaker 1: I like, this sounds amazing. Why would I not want
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  Speaker 1: to take this opportunity to try something new and expand
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  Speaker 1: my horizons. Even if I just find out that I
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  Speaker 1: hated Utah, at least I get to check, you know,
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  Speaker 1: another state off my list. So I was very excited
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  Speaker 1: to try this out. And then the pandemic happened and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even get to go to Utah twenty yes,
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  Speaker 1: and then in twenty twenty one they opened it back up.
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  Speaker 1: I still was able to get tue my internship virtually,
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  Speaker 1: but in twenty twenty one was the first year that
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  Speaker 1: we're able to go out there. So my cohort the
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  Speaker 1: sixteen of US and now sixteen sixteen from the one
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  Speaker 1: HBCU or attendant of various HBCUs around the country. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, there was only one HPCU involved, which
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  Speaker 1: was Howard University. But since then we've expanded to work
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  Speaker 1: with other HBCUs like Morgan State, uh Morehouse, Tuskegee, FAMU,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, ant So we're gradually expanding, but that first
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  Speaker 1: two years were only Howard student. Okay. Yeah, so basically
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  Speaker 1: you were kind of like the ambassadors to the brain
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  Speaker 1: to see if the program worked, the value of the program,
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  Speaker 1: so you set you set the tone for the success
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  Speaker 1: of the program. Correct, Yes, And you know, even though
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  Speaker 1: it was new, I still had obviously had a great
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  Speaker 1: impact on me where I thought, how can I get
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  Speaker 1: other students to get involved with this, because be kind
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  Speaker 1: of scary to want to go to Utah. I have
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  Speaker 1: no family out here. I just with the U talk
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  Speaker 1: for two months during the summer for my internship and
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  Speaker 1: they say, if AU just come move out here in
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  Speaker 1: two weeks, I like, really, okay, let's back to let's
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  Speaker 1: back this up there. You know, I read your bio.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Charlotte, North Carolina went to Howard University, Salt
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  Speaker 1: Lake City, Utah. Yeah. You know, you know, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I think about the food. I think about let's let's
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  Speaker 1: go and kill the stereotypes. Now black people, black black people.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta wonder where the black people at
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  Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City, Utah. Okay. And so so I
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  Speaker 1: know I saw you your Bachelors of Art and Strategic
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  Speaker 1: Legal and management communication. Okay, so what did the world
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  Speaker 1: adventure adventure you know, come up into this into your background?
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  Speaker 1: Who did you talk to? You talk to your parents,
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  Speaker 1: you talk to your classmates? Did you talk to anybody?
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  Speaker 1: They went, girl, have you lost your mind? Why are
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  Speaker 1: you going there? Because I gotta get that side of
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  Speaker 1: the story because you usually leaning all that. I leading
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  Speaker 1: all this little extra stuff out. Talk about that that
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  Speaker 1: before you got on the plane to go to Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 1: Say that Utah for the first time. Yes, that wasn't experienced. Everybody,
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  Speaker 1: They're like, small, why are you going to Utah? Western Utah?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. People are trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell me different. I didn't research anything about it. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be completely surprised. I didn't want to have
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  Speaker 1: any biases against it, and I just wanted to just
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  Speaker 1: soak in the whole experience to see what I can
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  Speaker 1: get out of Utah and what it would teach me
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  Speaker 1: about myself. And so I just I thought, I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to us out there, like what so again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just go there for the summer. My move
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  Speaker 1: there like that is crazy. But every since then, I've
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  Speaker 1: had family who would come out here and my cousin,
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  Speaker 1: my dad, my mom, like, wow, Utah such an amazing place,
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  Speaker 1: a hidden gem that you wouldn't have been thought of.
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  Speaker 1: The quality of life that you have here U people
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  Speaker 1: is always the first thing I get asked about where
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  Speaker 1: we have so soon Where are the black people and
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  Speaker 1: so like, said to Utah, they are everywhere. We have
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  Speaker 1: them in Agsen, Late and just around. It's not in
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  Speaker 1: a dense community, but they're kind of spread out around Utah.
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  Speaker 1: But it's once to me one person, you get to
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  Speaker 1: meet everybody in the community. It's a very tight knit community.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a group chat that we have. And when
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  Speaker 1: I first came here about a year and a half ago,
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  Speaker 1: there were four hundred people in there. Now there's six
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  Speaker 1: hundred people in there. So it's just continues to grow.
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  Speaker 1: They're always have their different hands in the community, like oh,
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  Speaker 1: wants to go to the movies, Oh, we have this
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  Speaker 1: panel going on, We're gonna have this party, to the
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  Speaker 1: hostess off together, their June teams here, all the festivities
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  Speaker 1: that are happy involved. As a legislators said to Utah, alright, alright,
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  Speaker 1: that yes, you guys, not what you think it is. Okay, okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: but there are two Utahs. There is a summer Utah
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  Speaker 1: and then there's a winter Utah. Okay, see see the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of you. You were just doing internships, doing the summer,
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  Speaker 1: doing the summer. Did I tell you, hey, did you
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  Speaker 1: want to start working here? Now? Had you experienced the
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  Speaker 1: winter Utah at that point? No? I have not. When
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  Speaker 1: I was about to move, I love I love the mountains.
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  Speaker 1: I can have this the beautiful view. And then I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, it never rains here, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, great, it rained the first two weeks I
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  Speaker 1: was there. After I moved there, I said, now, why
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  Speaker 1: did y'a lave seeing you like that? Um? Better? Why
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  Speaker 1: show wiper blaze? But this last year wasn't as um
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  Speaker 1: It is snow as much in this year. It has
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  Speaker 1: been snowing every single day. I think he just snowed
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Actually now the sun's out, so uh, that's definitely.
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  Speaker 1: But there's no humidity here, so that makes it different
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  Speaker 1: from the East coast. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely chilling. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit more variable. Yeah, absolutely. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: the program manager at the University of Utah's HPCU Impact Program.
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  Speaker 1: This program allows students during the summer where their companies
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  Speaker 1: will pay for the students flights, houses and salary over
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  Speaker 1: the summer and return the University of Utah will provide
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  Speaker 1: access to HBCUs students. That's that's what you're doing. They're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get students to come there, lived there, and
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  Speaker 1: possibly work there to create a more diverse and much
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  Speaker 1: more I guess you know you learned by people you meet.
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  Speaker 1: You in stereotypes, stereotypes, and even in this interview, we're
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  Speaker 1: laughing a lot, but we also end in stereotypes. Interviewing
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  Speaker 1: some own lawrencies. The program manager for the HPCU Impact Program.
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  Speaker 1: At the top of the show, I gave out some
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  Speaker 1: information about the success what I call Black excellence at HBCUs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give it out again, just in case
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  Speaker 1: you weren't there at the top of the show. Eight
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  Speaker 1: percent of the black judges in America graduate from HBCUs,
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent of the black doctors graduate from HBCUs, cent
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  Speaker 1: of the black lawyers graduate from HBCUs, forty percent of
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  Speaker 1: the black engineers graduate from HBCUs, forty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: black members of Congress graduate from HBCUs, fifty percent of
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  Speaker 1: the black public school teachers graduate from HBCUs, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: percent of the black stem professionals graduated from HBCUs, seventy
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  Speaker 1: five percent of the black veterinarians graduated from HBCUs, seventy
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  Speaker 1: percent of the Black dentists graduate from HBCUs. Reasons, I
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  Speaker 1: say that with your program, HBCU impact, HBCUs deliver, and
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  Speaker 1: they deliver academic success. So this program that they've set
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  Speaker 1: up at the University of Utah really is vis basically
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  Speaker 1: inviting the best of the best academically into the city
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  Speaker 1: of the state of Utah in Salt Lake City. Correct, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're such a great talker, and they need you go yes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: usually like followed up with the robust tones of encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what I got out of this is
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  Speaker 1: very close to your Angela Davis moment I gave you
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  Speaker 1: and you just said yes. But that's all right, that's
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  Speaker 1: all right now, I digress. The program started in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: You've been a product of the program. Now, the program
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  Speaker 1: this is unique because as far as a PWI, which
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  Speaker 1: is a predominant white institution, this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: first that's ever been created for HBCUs. Correct, Yes, this
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  Speaker 1: is correct. On campus, we're working out reaching out to
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  Speaker 1: different our two institutions, and hopefully we can develop faculty
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  Speaker 1: exchanges as well, so not only focusing our students, and
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  Speaker 1: we offer fifty percent off grad school if the students
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  Speaker 1: participate in this program and then come back at the
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  Speaker 1: U for any graduate degree. So it's very impactful and
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  Speaker 1: just something new that I don't think we see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of this at these higher education institutes. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's unique because of the fact that we all know
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  Speaker 1: that if you don't know that the predominant amount it's
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred and seven HBCUs, The predominant amount of
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs are located in the southeastern part of the country.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not by accident because of discriminatory practices not
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  Speaker 1: allowed blacks higher education in eighteen sixty five. Basically when
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs were founded, they were founding based as a trade school,
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  Speaker 1: based on trade school, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: it led or then you had W. B. Du Bois,
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  Speaker 1: and then you had BOOKTI Washington. BOOKATI Washington emphasized trade
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  Speaker 1: school training. W E. B. Du Bois emphasized academic He
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  Speaker 1: wanted doctors. He wanted lawyers, you wanted engineers. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's really how HBCUs, the core, the HBCUs drive that
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  Speaker 1: we see today, came out of that. Then if we
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  Speaker 1: all know the background of a Bookati Washington was Tuskegee University.
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  Speaker 1: Now when you talk about it, so when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about this program, that's what makes it even more unique
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  Speaker 1: because you know, Utah is Utah, it's not near an HBCU,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the part of the company country that is
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  Speaker 1: predominantly white. But also so I wouldn't see this program
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  Speaker 1: being tied to I wouldn't see like the University of
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  Speaker 1: Alabama or the University of Georgia doing this because HBCUs
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  Speaker 1: are right around the corner from there. But it's but
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  Speaker 1: it's a blessing to me that the University of Utah
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  Speaker 1: sees value in this type of HBCU partnership because it
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  Speaker 1: gives not only a new experience for you, but you
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  Speaker 1: get to share a part of life that I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: ever have known about it. When I found out about
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity, I immediately wanted you to my show to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. Continue Wow, thank you. So yes, this
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  Speaker 1: is such a unique program for the Salt Lake Citio
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  Speaker 1: if people don't know about it based like number two
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  Speaker 1: fashion and throwing city for business and the number one
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  Speaker 1: for financial institutions. So bringing having me see that step
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  Speaker 1: out of their comfort zone say oh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: want to work at Google, I want to work at Apple.
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  Speaker 1: But there's just so many other career paths and like
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  Speaker 1: tech companies, financial banking companies, or even just healthcare companies
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  Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City that you wouldn't think about. We
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  Speaker 1: have an area called Silicon Slops, which is just kind
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  Speaker 1: of trying to replicate Silicon Valley in California, where we
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  Speaker 1: have all these tech cups, like Adobe is located here.
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  Speaker 1: We's and something you wouldn't thin about because you're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh it's Utah. There's nothing out here for me. But
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  Speaker 1: just having access to that and being able to know, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can go here. A lot of students don't think
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  Speaker 1: that they can do something because they don't see themselves,
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  Speaker 1: they don't see people like them in those situations. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't go to Utah because I don't see my
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  Speaker 1: health here. But once you find out what the type
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  Speaker 1: this program in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. Realize there
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  Speaker 1: are other HBCU programs on campus. They're about seven other
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  Speaker 1: guys benefit from any exposure of the NBA All Star
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  Speaker 1: Weekend when it was hosted in Saltleax City the HPCU impact. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So the university actually hosted a number of events on campus.
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  Speaker 1: We hosted the HBCU Classic versus Southern and Grambling and
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks before that came to us and say, we
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  Speaker 1: us a gift U fifty thousand dollars, which has been
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  Speaker 1: you're doing we support these students in this community. How
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  Speaker 1: You say you received a gift from fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: donation to the HBCU Impact Program at the University of Utah.
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  Speaker 1: What does one do with fifty thousand dollars donation? What
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  Speaker 1: do you do? How does that benefit your program? So
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  Speaker 1: we were true during the school year, we go to
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  Speaker 1: these hbcs on campus and say maybe you want these galleries,
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  Speaker 1: workshops that we try to pay for welcome packages that
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  Speaker 1: of community events to get the black community introduced to
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  Speaker 1: the students so that they can develop these or any
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  Speaker 1: meatorships relationships, and so it just helps fund having these
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  Speaker 1: experience the different what suga Utah is like, which is
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  Speaker 1: more red rocks, which you would think Salt Lake is like.
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  Speaker 1: donation with the Black Cultural Censor on campus where they're
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  Speaker 1: creating new program Generation Next and they're trying to work
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  Speaker 1: with their black students who are locally and take them
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  Speaker 1: through these professional development workshops throughout the year and then
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  Speaker 1: they can visit to find out more about the HBCU
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  Speaker 1: Impact Program at the University of Utah. Yeah, so if
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  Speaker 1: take you to all of the different partnerships that we
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  Speaker 1: have on campus, and the first one will be HBCU Impact.
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