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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: His way up and Angela we weren't recording on.

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Speaker 3: I do have two very special guests joining us, and

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Speaker 3: this guy right here is my friend in real life.

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Speaker 3: Greg Bishop is here with me, executive director of the

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Speaker 3: Joe and Claris I Foundations Social Justice Fund.

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Speaker 4: Welcome, thank you, thank you a minute.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know this is too long.

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Speaker 3: We've had like an hour conversation before the actual It's

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Speaker 3: been so long. And we're also joined by Khalila Moon,

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Speaker 3: executive director of Drive Change, who I met at.

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Speaker 2: Curl feste over the weekends.

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Speaker 5: I love Simon and Trees and Melody, they're my friends

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Speaker 5: and curlfast is always a blast.

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Speaker 1: It's always good, beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know I don't have any curls.

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Speaker 4: I don't have any curls, but because.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of guys without curls.

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Speaker 4: Popping up to curl, curl is the spot. I'm telling you.

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Speaker 2: Ten years going strong and the guys were dressed to

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Speaker 2: the nines. I could so they was outside.

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Speaker 1: We were in competition.

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Speaker 4: The one thing I regret is, you know, when I

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Speaker 4: was at SBS that we didn't have an opportunity to

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Speaker 4: support that event because I think that you know, when

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Speaker 4: you think about entrepreneurship and you think about you know,

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Speaker 4: black owned businesses, et cetera, et cetera, that's where you

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Speaker 4: need to be.

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Speaker 3: And it was their tenure anniversary too for curl Fest.

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Speaker 3: And SBS is Small Business Services for People.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, Greg.

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Speaker 3: When I met Greg, he was a commissioner for SBS. Yes,

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Speaker 3: and you actually did a lot while you were SBS

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Speaker 3: for small Businesses.

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Speaker 4: I want to thank you because you also helped me

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Speaker 4: get the word out for some important initiatives and you

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Speaker 4: still continue to advocate for the community. So thank you

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Speaker 4: very much.

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Speaker 3: Right, and look now you're doing you know, important work still, right,

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Speaker 3: because this is something that's near and dear to your heart,

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Speaker 3: is helping business owners but also helping to drive change.

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Speaker 2: You like how to thank you? And that's where cil

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Speaker 2: the Moon comes in.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about what each of you are doing

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Speaker 3: now in your respective So, Khalila, you have Drive Change.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah.

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Speaker 5: So I'm the executive director of an organization in Brooklyn

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Speaker 5: called Drive Change, and we sit at the intersection of

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Speaker 5: reentry and hospitality and we work with young adults who's

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Speaker 5: four month paid training program and then helping them get

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Speaker 5: jobs within the hospitality space. And we also started to

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Speaker 5: begin tackling food and security. So we give our groceries

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Speaker 5: between the spring and winter months and the best community

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Speaker 5: So we're feeding over two hundred and fifty families. Our

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Speaker 5: young adults that are in our training program are also

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Speaker 5: assisting us in that. And so, yeah, we believe that

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Speaker 5: not only is food a right in community is a gift,

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love that.

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Speaker 3: And you know, at that age in particular, a lot

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Speaker 3: of times if people have been impacted by you know,

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Speaker 3: that is something that's amazing because these young people, like

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Speaker 3: interested in making sure that we're always working within the

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Speaker 3: you know, not understand like y'all are popping, you guys

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Speaker 5: I have to agree with you. I always say that

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Speaker 1: The ones that are going to help get them out.

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Speaker 5: Resiliency, right, the ability to communicate, the ability to lead.

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Speaker 5: So you know, we try to tap into those things

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Speaker 1: First off, I love coffee ups people.

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Speaker 5: I love the hospitality from the gate. You guys clean

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Speaker 5: But anyways, so we you know, it's important that our

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Speaker 3: And now, Greg Bishop, let's talk about these social justice

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Speaker 3: fun You guys do so much work. I've done, actually

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Speaker 3: a lot of work with you as the executive director,

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Speaker 3: so let people know what's happening, because I'm also on

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so I have to, of course start off

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Speaker 4: by saying a big thank you to Clara Ussai. Clara

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Speaker 4: Ussai is a part owner of the New York Liberty

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Speaker 4: and also the Brooklyn Nets. Yes, Clara and Joe bought

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Speaker 4: giving back to Brooklyn and New York City. After the

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Speaker 4: the birth of the Social Justice Fund.

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Speaker 3: And even like you said, they were all these rallies

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Speaker 3: you guys can convene.

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Speaker 4: Everything from providing ppees to you know, paying the arena

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Speaker 4: the philanthropic work of Clara has been you know, have

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Speaker 4: Clara is really really focused on economic mobility and racial justice.

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Speaker 4: It's in her DNA. You know, she's from Lawrence, Kansas.

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Speaker 4: putting out a report later on this year to talk

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Speaker 3: But we start the most small businesses get the least

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Speaker 4: So we invest one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: why we love Drive Change Is Is is an initiative

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Speaker 4: You belong here, We belong here. It's actually our installation.

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Speaker 4: It's his work and it talks about belonging and belonging

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Speaker 4: to community. And every summer we find organizations that focus

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Speaker 4: So we invested one hundred thousand dollars into four organizations.

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Speaker 4: we are actually we're giving them a grant of twenty

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Speaker 4: And everyone that I've talked to in this situation, they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And you know about opportunity nolutely.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's the ability to earn, the ability to

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Speaker 2: Khalila, I want to ask.

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Speaker 3: You, you know, we just went through these numbers as

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Speaker 3: you feel like your organization drive change has faced when

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Speaker 3: it comes to trying to make sure that you're able

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Speaker 3: to provide for the community and for the youth that

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. Thank you. For asking that.

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Speaker 5: So it is diversified funding right, consistent multi year farnd.

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Speaker 5: People are often wanting to waiver and and move in

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Speaker 5: lot of times folks support what's hot, and so you know,

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Speaker 5: the hospitality industry might not be as sexy as tech. However,

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Speaker 5: the hospitality industry has been an industry that's opened their

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Speaker 1: And really, I used to work.

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Speaker 5: I think that we it's it's really ingrained in all

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Speaker 5: And so the village is myself, it is Greg's Claire,

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Speaker 5: Now there's that glass cliff, But it is when there

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Speaker 4: invest in the community. So of course it comes yeah.

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Speaker 4: But but we have a trifecta here, right. We have

443
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Speaker 4: you know that there's the arena, right, but you have

444
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 4: like there's a NETS and Liberty Foundation in the Nets

445
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 4: and Liberty Foundation focus a lot on food and security wellness,

446
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 4: and I work closely with with the team there. You know,

447
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 4: there's the arena itself which has programs for small businesses,

448
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,640
Speaker 4: so that it's like Brooklyn Butdego where you know, literally

449
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,360
Speaker 4: you can if you're a small business and you want

450
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Speaker 4: to actually be a concession in the arena, you can

451
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 4: try we can try you out. So that's yes, a

452
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Speaker 4: little more that's handled to go out to me internally

453
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Speaker 4: by the head of the Diversity, Equity Inclusion Jackie. So Jackie,

454
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 4: he takes that and so so that's that's the anchor institution.

455
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Speaker 4: But then you have players like our players, like you know, especially.

456
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Speaker 1: You know the NBA Foundation.

457
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Speaker 4: There's the NBA Foundation, but there's also like the players

458
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Speaker 4: who have their interests and so they want to invest

459
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Speaker 4: in the communities that they play in. And then the

460
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,920
Speaker 4: trifector is we have ownership, right and and that typically

461
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Speaker 4: sometimes owners place the responsibility of investing in community on

462
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Speaker 4: the players, but in this case, we have owners who

463
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Speaker 4: have said no, we want to also invest. So I

464
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Speaker 4: think Brooklyn is unique. New York City is unique in

465
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Speaker 4: terms of like we have with the New York Liberty

466
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Speaker 4: and the Brooklyn Nets. You know, this trifector of community

467
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Speaker 4: engagement that it's.

468
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Speaker 2: Rare in you know, Oh, you're so right. I'm not

469
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Speaker 2: gonna lie.

470
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Speaker 3: There's times that I've been places and people who have

471
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Speaker 3: organizations would be like, oh, I met Clara, sat down

472
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Speaker 3: with Clara. There's even been times that she's texted me

473
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Speaker 3: and been like, hey, do you know of any organizations

474
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Speaker 3: that you think? Like she literally will ask me and say,

475
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 3: you know, who do you think? Because I'm definitely on

476
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Speaker 3: the ground in Brooklyn paying attention to everything that's going on,

477
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Speaker 3: and I like that. I like the fact that Okay,

478
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Speaker 3: let me you know refer to defer to people who

479
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 3: are from here, and Greg, you're a perfect example to

480
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 3: have you in the position that you're in, and I

481
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 3: know this has to be very fulfilling work for you.

482
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Speaker 4: It's a blessing. It's a blessing. It's a blessing because

483
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 4: Clara really cares a lot about the community. And what's

484
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 4: more important is that you know because you have in philanthropy.

485
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,479
Speaker 4: Sometimes you know, philanthropy comes in and says, I we

486
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 4: know what's right right, and we tell organizations like Drive Change,

487
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 4: this is how we want you to execute your programming.

488
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Speaker 4: We don't do that. Clara will sit down, will she

489
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 4: listened to individuals, she learned from the experts, and then

490
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Speaker 4: say like, okay, I think.

491
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Speaker 2: This is how we should How can we help you?

492
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Speaker 4: And then when we make our investments is general operating.

493
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Speaker 4: We're not telling you, we're not constricting you, just supporting

494
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 4: the great work that you're doing. It takes a lot

495
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 4: because you have to listen, right, And so that's why

496
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 4: Clara and I work so well together, because she really

497
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 4: cares a lot about the community, just like I do.

498
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Speaker 3: The hardest part, I think is figuring out which organizations

499
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 3: get the money too sometimes because everybody we so just.

500
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Speaker 2: You know, full transparency us being on this.

501
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Speaker 3: Greg put me on this committee, and there's a whole

502
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Speaker 3: committee of us.

503
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Speaker 4: Is it just Brooklyn Prize, Yes, yes, So it's just

504
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 4: it's an initiative, just Brooklyn Prize, where we award twenty

505
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Speaker 4: thousand dollars to five great Brooklyn Knights who are doing amazing.

506
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Speaker 2: When I tell you, like, we.

507
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Speaker 4: Had nine hundred nominations, I know, and Angela yes, and

508
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Speaker 4: Angela had to you know, sort through all of them.

509
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Speaker 3: Oh no, but they narrowed it down and they did

510
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Speaker 3: a great job. And so when you get to the

511
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Speaker 3: final ten, they all could have got it, you know.

512
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Speaker 3: And that's what's really hard sometimes trying to figure out

513
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Speaker 3: like who in this final group of people, and even

514
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 3: you know, aside from that, even I'm sure the top

515
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 3: one hundred, they all could have potentially won that money

516
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Speaker 3: because I know it means a lot to be able

517
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Speaker 3: to get that grant money, to be able to continue

518
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 3: doing the work that you're doing. Because I also feel

519
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 3: like when it comes to philanthropy and nonprofits, like you said,

520
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 3: paying people a livable wage, making sure they have insurance,

521
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Speaker 3: making sure that they're taking care of themselves. That's important,

522
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Speaker 3: but people seem to think that you shouldn't be making

523
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Speaker 3: decent money when you work for a nonprofit. I think

524
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Speaker 3: people feel like, yeah, I definitely disagree, but it feels

525
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Speaker 3: like people are like, oh, why does she have that house?

526
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Speaker 2: Why is she doing this? How is she able to

527
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Speaker 2: afford this?

528
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Speaker 3: Like you're not supposed to live, you know, decently, and

529
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Speaker 3: you're putting in so much work and so much of yourself.

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Speaker 1: Every day that I come to drive change.

531
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Speaker 5: I think about, you know, I've had family members that

532
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Speaker 5: have been impacted by the justice system.

533
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Speaker 1: I've had partners impacted by the justice system.

534
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Speaker 5: I've had to watch them not be able to get

535
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Speaker 5: jobs if they want to change their life around. That's

536
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Speaker 5: very disheartening to see that as a as a black woman,

537
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 5: and I walk into that job that door every day

538
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 5: wanting to help shift and change someone's life. I bring

539
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Speaker 5: my whole and full self. I wake up with the work,

540
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 5: I go to bed with the work. That might not

541
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Speaker 5: be the most, you know, healthiest thing to do. So

542
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Speaker 5: I'm trying to find some boundaries, right But at the

543
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Speaker 5: end of the end of the day, not only do

544
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Speaker 5: I have staff livelihood in my hands. But I also

545
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 5: have young adults, right, and young adults who have been

546
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Speaker 5: you know, come from some marginalized communities and have not

547
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Speaker 5: really been invested in. And so it is my job

548
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 5: and my duty. This is my work, my passion. I

549
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 5: have my master's a nonprofit management.

550
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Speaker 1: Does that? Right?

551
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Speaker 2: Like shut out to the.

552
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Speaker 1: Seriously?

553
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Speaker 3: Right?

554
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Speaker 1: Who does?

555
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Speaker 5: But but I did I say all that just saying

556
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Speaker 5: I do think that when we invest in our people, right,

557
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 5: when you feel happy at work, you bring your full

558
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 5: self and then you have the ability to be successful.

559
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Speaker 1: In your own job, and then in turn, everyone else

560
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: feels that.

561
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Speaker 5: And so I am being very intentional about about creating

562
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 5: a space where people want to show up and that's

563
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 5: just not because you're there's a check, but because.

564
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: They feel seen and they feel value.

565
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Speaker 5: And I think that we have the ability, we meaning

566
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Speaker 5: nonprofit leaders, to shift the way in which we used

567
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 5: to run our organizations, Like how do we move from

568
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 5: some of that dominant culture kind of values and really

569
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 5: bring in a bit of community and you can still

570
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 5: have high standards but still care for individuals and understand

571
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Speaker 5: like you know what, you got some stuff going on

572
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 5: work from home right to day right, right, Like someone's past.

573
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 5: Like someone said, something's happened to someone's sick in your family.

574
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Speaker 5: You don't have to show up to because I now exactly.

575
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Speaker 5: And also I need to pay rent. We live in Brooklyn.

576
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Speaker 2: How listen, I want you to own a home.

577
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Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying it When you yeah doing the

578
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 3: work that you're doing, I think that you know mentally,

579
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Speaker 3: like just knowing that I'm I'm good too, like I'm

580
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 3: doing and I'm getting compensated because if you got paid hourly,

581
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm sure the hours and hours that you

582
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 3: spend outside of work at home doing everything that you

583
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 3: need to do, it would not even equate to minimum wage,

584
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, just because of what this requires.

585
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Speaker 2: And I think even just as.

586
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Speaker 3: Much as you have success stories, sometimes there's not success stories.

587
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 2: And that's hard too.

588
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, when you care about people that are

589
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 3: coming through a program like this, because this does until

590
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 3: you having empathy but also really knowing people. Sometimes that

591
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 3: works like a bus relationship where they tell you not

592
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 3: to get to attached, not to do X, Y and Z.

593
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 3: But that's so hard not to do with these young uh,

594
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Speaker 3: with these with the youth.

595
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Speaker 1: I agree with you I mean, if you.

596
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Speaker 5: Do, you have the ability to sometimes compartmentalize because of

597
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 5: what you hear, you have to, you have to because

598
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Speaker 5: you don't want to bring all that home.

599
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is very much.

600
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Speaker 5: It could be like a coping skill for you if

601
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Speaker 5: you will, because unfortunately there are some things that it's

602
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 5: it's it's hard to hold right. But I and I

603
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 5: also know that you know the impact that I might

604
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 5: have on someone I will never see, and they might

605
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Speaker 5: not they might not be successful or what I consider

606
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 5: to be successful, or you had drive change with somewhere else. Right,

607
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 5: And I walk down the street, I've been doing this

608
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 5: for a while now, and I'll be at a Spike

609
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 5: Lee event and someone will say, miss Kalila, you know,

610
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 5: and they'll give me a hug, and she helped me

611
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 5: with this, you know, because I've been in the nonprofit

612
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 5: space in New York for nineteen years and that's just

613
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 5: in New York.

614
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Speaker 1: And so it's amazing to be able to see.

615
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 5: Later down the line when someone as your work has

616
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 5: had an impact on your life. But oftentimes I don't

617
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 5: really have the ability to see that. I might get

618
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 5: them a job and they can stay for a year,

619
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Speaker 5: but I mean like true impact.

620
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Speaker 1: Right, you know, years later you get to be you're

621
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Speaker 1: able to see that.

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Speaker 3: Well, Greg, I do want to thank you always for

623
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 3: the work that you've been doing. You got to come

624
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 3: up here. I know the background all the time.

625
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Speaker 2: He's super tall.

626
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 3: So as soon as you I was like, wait, no,

627
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:11,959
Speaker 3: what has gotten you into this space?

628
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Speaker 4: You know, because what we talked about earlier, people invested

629
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Speaker 4: in my life, right, you know, I had mentors as

630
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 4: young as like fourteen fifteen, you know, when I was

631
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 4: going to church, like I had a.

632
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Speaker 1: Young vacation, you know, I had.

633
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Speaker 4: I had a mentor, David Mullings. He would give me

634
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 4: his PC magazine, you know, books to like, and I

635
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 4: got into coding that way, you know what I mean.

636
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 4: And then when I got into coding, I built a

637
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 4: website stole pictures from Vite magazine. They found out, they

638
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 4: sent me a sease and desist, but then they were like,

639
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 4: why didn't you come on in? And then I had

640
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 4: another mentor, City Bellow. You know, I was like a

641
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 4: teenager and literally he taught me like you need to

642
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 4: advocate for yourself. You need to know how to negotiate

643
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 4: your salary. You know, we always under we don't appreciate

644
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 4: the work that we bring in the value that we have.

645
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 4: And so, you know, I'm a kid from Grenada. You know,

646
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 4: I came here when I was seven, and it's because

647
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 4: of all these opportunities and mentors, and you said it,

648
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 4: but for the grace of God, I grew up in

649
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 4: one one, two o three like East flat Bush. You know,

650
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 4: just because I grew up in one, one, two three

651
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 4: doesn't mean that if you grew up in one one,

652
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 4: you know, two two six, you should have a different experience.

653
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 4: You should have a different experience, right. Your zip code

654
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 4: doesn't determine your path, right. And so for me, it's

655
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 4: all about giving back. It's all about community, because I

656
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 4: think there's a number of great bishops out there. They're

657
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 4: in East Flatbush, They're in Brownsville, They're in Canarsi, They're

658
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 4: in you know, Bedstye, They're all in there in Red Hook.

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Speaker 4: They're all waiting for that opportunity for that door to open,

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Speaker 4: and once they get through, they can excel. But you've

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Speaker 4: got to open up the door, right, And so everything

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Speaker 4: that I have done in my life is really trying

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Speaker 4: to figure out how to open up doors for people

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Speaker 4: to take advantage of that. Now, I'm not gonna you

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Speaker 4: can lead a horse to water, you can't make a drink, right,

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Speaker 4: But like, as long as you could open up that door,

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Speaker 4: and there's systems that are preventing doors from being open,

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Speaker 4: and there's you know, we could have a whole segment

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Speaker 4: about like all these You've had guests who talked about

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Speaker 4: those systems, everything from redlining, you know the fact that

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Speaker 4: we can't own property or we don't have you know

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Speaker 4: that generational wealth, right, you know, getting into the good schools. Right,

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Speaker 4: every school should have the same education system. I was

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Speaker 4: fortunately I got into Brooklyn Tech and I had access right,

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Speaker 4: but individuals who didn't go to Brooklyn Tech should still

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Speaker 4: have the same level of education. So this is what

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Speaker 4: you see. I get worked up about it. This is

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Speaker 4: what drives me, and of course you know drives me

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Speaker 4: drive change, like.

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Speaker 1: All social platforms.

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Speaker 4: Like literally these organizations are creating opportunities and that's what

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Speaker 4: you know, that's what I care about. That's what Clara

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Speaker 4: cares about, you know, because it's all about opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tangible change. But thank you both so much, I know,

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Speaker 2: thank you for having Angela ye day to get Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Change will be there, Yes, indeed, the other three

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Speaker 4: organizations will be there. I'm so excited me too to partner.

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Speaker 2: With you again, social justice fan.

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Speaker 3: I was actually there when you unveil the art work

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Speaker 3: too or We Belong, and that was an amazing thing

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Speaker 3: to see. And you know, I just love the fact

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Speaker 3: that you guys really promote art, you promote you know,

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Speaker 3: social justice, all of these things, and really like talk

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Speaker 3: to talk. And so we'll be at Angela EE day

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Speaker 3: September first to talk to you. You definitely do yeah,

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Speaker 3: to have to talk walk the walk, we got to

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Speaker 3: do it all, but it definitely has to be a collaboration.

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Speaker 4: And thank you so much for having us. Thank you

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Speaker 4: for being a great partner in Brooklyn and worldwide because

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Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of people who are entrepreneurs

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Speaker 4: because they follow your journey and homeowners because they follow

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Speaker 4: your journey. So thank you to keep up the great work.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Well, we will see y'all September first and again, Khalila,

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Speaker 3: you know, I appreciate you for coming up here. I'm

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Speaker 3: so glad I had a chance to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna tell you what, I'm so bad cute

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Speaker 3: outfit and she was like, I'm gonna have on more

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Speaker 3: clothes though.

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Speaker 2: It's fast.

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Speaker 5: Job.

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Speaker 1: I'm nine to five.

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Speaker 4: Definitely cirl fast.

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Speaker 2: Next year, you know that we get those feet pictures

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Speaker 2: going to let's get it. We're gonna raise money. We

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Speaker 2: should auction off.

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Speaker 3: I'll take the picture, we auction off your feet and

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Speaker 3: we get it framed and raise money.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that fortune.

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Speaker 2: All right, well this way, I thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Well