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Disruptive Conversations – The Future of AI, Education, & The Workforce - The Potter’s House of Dallas. · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, how are you this morning? We are going
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Speaker 2: to have a wonderful conversation and we're going to learn
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Speaker 2: a lot of things today when it comes to artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 2: This is a conversation about disruptive thinking. It is one
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Speaker 2: of the pillars of what Bishop Jakes's Foundation is all about,
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Speaker 2: and hopefully educate us on the future and what is
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Speaker 2: coming up for us in the next ten to twenty
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Speaker 2: years when it comes to artificial intelligence and how we
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Speaker 2: all play a role. I just want to give you
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Speaker 2: a quick background on the Tdjakes Foundation, though it has
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Speaker 2: a bold vision for transforming underdeserved communities through education, workforce development,
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Speaker 2: and economic empowerment. That the Foundation envisions a world where
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Speaker 2: every individual, regardless of their background, has equal access to opportunities.
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Speaker 2: What do we need to learn about AI? What about
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Speaker 2: our kids? How do we fit into the curriculum? What
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Speaker 2: happens next? We don't want to get left behind. So
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Speaker 2: Bishop has assembled an incredible panel here today to talk
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Speaker 2: about those solutions and those answers. AI has the possibility
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Speaker 2: to change the landscape of how we do business and.
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Speaker 3: Propel us forward.
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Speaker 2: But research shows that only thirteen point eight percent of
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Speaker 2: authors leading AI conferences are women, and only three point
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Speaker 2: eight percent are black. We are hoping that these discussions
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Speaker 2: will help change that. So, without further ado, let's meet
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Speaker 2: our panelist. We are going to start off with doctor
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Speaker 2: Michael Cirell. He is the longest serving president in the
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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty one year history of Paul Quinn College.
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Speaker 2: During his sixteen year leadership, the college has become nationally
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Speaker 2: known for reimagining higher education to better serve today's students.
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Speaker 2: Graduation rates have improved by more than thirty percent. He's
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Speaker 2: helped reduce the student loan debt by thirty thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: and won countless and countless and countless of awards. I
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Speaker 2: literally had pages of accolades. Doctor Currell is one of
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Speaker 2: the most celebrated college presidents in America, named one of
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Speaker 2: the world's fifty Greatest leaders by Fortune Magazine. He's distinguished
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Speaker 2: in his career and we are honored to have him
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Speaker 2: here today, So let's give him a big round of applause.
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Speaker 2: Lynn McBee, she has been a volunteer leader for more
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Speaker 2: than twenty nine years, worked more than forty five thousand,
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Speaker 2: forty five thousand, get that hours of service for more
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Speaker 2: than thirty nonprofits. She has tackled tough issues like improving education,
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Speaker 2: serving the homeless, protecting children, fighting domestic violence. She has
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Speaker 2: served more than nine years as CEO of Young Women's
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Speaker 2: Preparatory Network, a public and private partnership that creates STEM
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Speaker 2: focused schools of choice in all girl settings. The graduates
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Speaker 2: of the YWPN have a one hundred percent college acceptance rate.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that incredible? That's really incredible. That's a true testament
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Speaker 2: of what you're doing. In nineteen twenty twenty two, Lynn
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Speaker 2: was appointed Dallas Workforce Developments are welcome her, please with
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Speaker 2: a big round of applause. And of course, the man
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Speaker 2: that really needs no introduction, our very own Bishop td Jakes.
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Speaker 3: We have to stand up.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Of course, he is the chairman and founder of Tdjake's Foundation,
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Speaker 2: Working Clothes to Bridge.
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Speaker 3: The Digital Divide.
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Speaker 2: He has helped build homes and has all sorts of initiatives.
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Speaker 3: And of course, my.
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Speaker 4: Pastor, I've actually been at the Water's house now for gosh,
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Speaker 4: going on at least close to two decades probably now,
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Speaker 4: and we really appreciate you bringing us all together, Bishop,
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Speaker 4: So I've really covered a lot of what you've done
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Speaker 4: over the years, and one of the things that you
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Speaker 4: are that is really important to you is technology stem education,
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Speaker 4: getting our kids.
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Speaker 3: Prepared for the future. Why is that so important to you.
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Speaker 5: I think it's important to me in part because I
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Speaker 5: grew up during the Industrial Age. I've seen these types
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Speaker 5: of paradigm shifts before, and I've seen how we fall
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Speaker 5: through the cracks when you see that the projections for
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Speaker 5: people of color by around twenty forty twenty forty five.
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Speaker 6: Is pretty pretty bleak.
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Speaker 5: If we don't make this transition very quickly, I think
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Speaker 5: it's going to take more than our school systems. It's
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Speaker 5: going to take all hands on deck to penetrate the
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Speaker 5: culture and the community and bring awareness to them what
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Speaker 5: they need to be taking in college, what they need
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Speaker 5: to be thinking about in life. What jobs are going
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Speaker 5: to remain, what jobs are not going to remain. When
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Speaker 5: you look at the world economic something suggests that technology
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Speaker 5: is going to wipe out about eighty five million jobs
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Speaker 5: and it's going to replace it with about ninety five
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Speaker 5: million jobs, about ninety seven million jobs. But those jobs
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Speaker 5: require certain skill sets in order to be able to
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Speaker 5: do that. Those who are not ready and get left
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Speaker 5: behind and the tragedy of them being left behind is
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Speaker 5: that their whole family is left with them. So we
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Speaker 5: want to be as proactive as we can be to
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Speaker 5: bring about the change we're trying to do.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that what can be done. Let's start
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Speaker 2: with you, doctor Sorel, about what can be done to
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Speaker 2: prepare our students, because it is AI can be exhilarating,
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Speaker 2: but it can also be petrifying, and I think some
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Speaker 2: people might be intimidated by that. What are you doing
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Speaker 2: to get these kids ready?
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Speaker 1: Now, thank you for the question, and let me first
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Speaker 1: just say how important it is that we're having this
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Speaker 1: conversation and that this is a wonderful place to have it.
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Speaker 1: It is important if we're going to make sure that
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Speaker 1: AI is as accessible as possible, that all of us
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Speaker 1: play a role in that our churches, our schools, our
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Speaker 1: community organizations, everyone has a role to play in ensuring
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Speaker 1: that this is brought about in the most equitable way possible.
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Speaker 1: Now that being said, the uncomfortable truth of the matter
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Speaker 1: is those communities that have been left behind traditionally are
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Speaker 1: at risk and being so far left behind with this
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Speaker 1: that it is terrifying. McKenzie did a report years ago
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Speaker 1: that talked about all the new jobs that were going
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Speaker 1: to be created. What they didn't focus on because it
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Speaker 1: wasn't The point of that report was that this is
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Speaker 1: akin to building a house on top of a foundation
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Speaker 1: that wasn't adequately built in the first place. So if
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Speaker 1: you are in an underperforming school, and you are underperforming
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Speaker 1: in that institution, imagine let's just use math for example.
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Speaker 1: Let's say that you took basic algebra and you were
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Speaker 1: a C student in basic algebra. The next course that
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Speaker 1: you were assigned to was advanced math or advanced calculus.
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Speaker 1: If you had a C in basic algebra, you're going
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Speaker 1: to fail advanced calculus. So what institutions like mine are
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Speaker 1: working on today is how do we ensure that everyone
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Speaker 1: can succeed. So what we do is we have a
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Speaker 1: series of certificate programs. We have four pillars of a
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Speaker 1: Pallcoin education. The first is what you major in. The
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Speaker 1: second is the work program you come to Paulquin everyone
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Speaker 1: gets a job. The third is our certificate program, which
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Speaker 1: every year you get a short term industry recognized credential
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Speaker 1: and it's set up to be able to be done
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Speaker 1: in six weeks at a very reasonable cost. So that
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Speaker 1: you don't have to take out loans and we stack them.
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Speaker 1: So you are given the foundation regardless of whatever you
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Speaker 1: do academically. And this is for adult learners as well,
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Speaker 1: but you're given a foundation and a pathway which says
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Speaker 1: this is how you get to where you need to be.
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Speaker 1: Those are the types of things we need to do
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Speaker 1: to ensure that the AI aspect of this doesn't leave
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Speaker 1: far too many vulnerable people completely without hope or realistic possibilities.
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Speaker 2: Well, and let's talk about that about the adult learner.
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Speaker 2: Somebody that's already out there, maybe they have a job
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Speaker 2: just to sustain, but they don't have that college degree.
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Speaker 2: What opportunities are out there for them so that they
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Speaker 2: don't get left behind as well? Because it is important
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Speaker 2: that we continue education. I think all of us are
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Speaker 2: going to have to continue to learn about AI. We
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Speaker 2: can't stop or we're going to get left behind. What
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Speaker 2: is out there for that person who maybe already be
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Speaker 2: in the workforce, doesn't have the college degree.
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Speaker 3: How can they afford to learn what we need to learn?
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Speaker 7: I think first I want to want to say what
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Speaker 7: Michael said is exactly right. The foundation that you are
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Speaker 7: given when you start, and so I'm really excited that
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Speaker 7: dsd's doing some early college and they're doing a lot
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Speaker 7: of career institutes and things that really give people credentials
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Speaker 7: and certificates to really get a job.
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Speaker 3: It's like a hard handoff.
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Speaker 7: It's like I graduate from school. But all these programs
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Speaker 7: are brand new. The Dallas County promised six years old.
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Speaker 7: So if you're in one of the five zip codes
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Speaker 7: in our county that we've got three generations of poverty,
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Speaker 7: you've never been given these opportunities. And so now we
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Speaker 7: have forty percent of folks in Dallas County that are
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Speaker 7: low income. And so you ask, how does that adult
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Speaker 7: that working poor, that mom that has two jobs that
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Speaker 7: is just you know, barely sustaining, what do we do?
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Speaker 3: So Workforce Dallas was.
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Speaker 7: Grown out of that specifically to address the work poor.
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Speaker 7: And so the good news is we've got a wonderful
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Speaker 7: hiring mixture today, and we've got people that will hire
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Speaker 7: people on the spot. And a lot of these jobs
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Speaker 7: are six weeks certificates. There's a lot of apprenticeships now.
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Speaker 7: But I think you know, the good news is is
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Speaker 7: the big institutions are finally starting to line up and
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Speaker 7: make the investments in the places because without the big institutions,
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Speaker 7: you're not going to have system change, and we really
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Speaker 7: have to have system change. This is not something where
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Speaker 7: we're going to go in and we're going to work
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Speaker 7: on it for ten years and it's going to be fixed.
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Speaker 3: These are.
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Speaker 7: Three generations you're talking about, folks in a family that
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Speaker 7: have never seen anyone in their family go to work,
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Speaker 7: and so it becomes a behavioral mindset. And so I
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Speaker 7: think for that adult, that adult that is out there
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Speaker 7: that's the working poor, there's a lot of opportunities here today.
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Speaker 7: But I would say I would love for you to
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Speaker 7: hook up with Workforce Dallas because we are intent, this
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Speaker 7: is what it was set up for, to really look
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Speaker 7: at the adult worker, the twenty five to sixty four
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Speaker 7: year old that didn't have the opportunities that are being
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Speaker 7: created today, that are working multiple jobs, really analyzing what
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Speaker 7: is your what what can you do?
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Speaker 3: What do you you know?
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Speaker 7: Because you've probably done a lot of different things and
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Speaker 7: there's probably some things that we can you know, real quickly,
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Speaker 7: give you certificate in and put you to work. So
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Speaker 7: I'm excited about the big institutions starting to line up
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Speaker 7: and really focus on where they need to folk that.
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Speaker 7: The unfortunate thing is forty percent of Dallas. You think
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Speaker 7: about that, Dallas has one point three million people. That's
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Speaker 7: a lot of people that are the working place. It's
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Speaker 7: it's too many. So you know, AI is the future,
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Speaker 7: but there are so many If you can be a phlebotomist,
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Speaker 7: if you can be a patient care technician, if you
11:37
Speaker 7: can do in transportation logistics, if you can do mechanics onboarding,
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Speaker 7: you know all there are so many jobs for people
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Speaker 7: that that and they do want to work, they just have.
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Speaker 3: Not had access to the opportunity.
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Speaker 2: So, Bishop, I know you preach a lot about this,
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Speaker 2: about those generational curses, and what role do you and
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Speaker 2: your foundation play in all of this.
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Speaker 5: That's a very interesting question. First of all, tdj's foundation
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Speaker 5: seeks to provide solutions to sociological problems by convening things
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Speaker 5: like this where we can have formats to discuss them,
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Speaker 5: and also taking advantage of the thirty million people that
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Speaker 5: we connect with on social media to be a voice
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Speaker 5: of advocacy, to connect supply with demand. So what we're
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Speaker 5: trying to do is to convene these types of atmospheres
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Speaker 5: through our facilities, through our ability to reach globally our audience,
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Speaker 5: and then to aggregate the content creation that comes from
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Speaker 5: these dialogues and put them out there on YouTube and
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Speaker 5: put them in other places for other people to begin
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Speaker 5: to think differently. I think what we're trying to do
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Speaker 5: through the Foundation is not only STEM and STEAM programs,
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Speaker 5: but pathways to job readiness. We're also trying to increase
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Speaker 5: awareness so that this is injected into the into the culture,
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Speaker 5: into our family life, into our conversation around the table,
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Speaker 5: how we talk to our children, what we think is important.
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Speaker 5: Many times our parents are so busy trying to make
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Speaker 5: a living that they don't have a life, and they're
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Speaker 5: not aware of what is going on outside of paying
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Speaker 5: the rent and dropping the kids off to school and
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Speaker 5: trying to keep up with the price of buttermilk, you know,
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Speaker 5: and they find themselves in these horrendous situations where there's
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Speaker 5: a disconnect between the child's world and the adult world.
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Speaker 5: So this exposes through our culture, through our community, through.
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Speaker 6: Our city in general. And let me hasten to.
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Speaker 5: Add that Dallas has become a huge hub for Fortune
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Speaker 5: one hundred companies who are very interested in technology. The
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Speaker 5: job opportunities are absolutely amazing. It's not the opportunities that
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Speaker 5: we're worried about, it's the job readiness.
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Speaker 2: What do you think city, the city leaders and civic
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Speaker 2: leaders need to do to prepare us for what's coming
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Speaker 2: in the next decade or so when it comes to
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Speaker 2: artificial intelligence and technology, Doctor Cherrell, I feel.
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Speaker 1: As if that could have been a loaded question. No,
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Speaker 1: the first thing is we have to understand it. We
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Speaker 1: have to understand how truly disruptive it will be. And
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Speaker 1: the way I like to explain it to everyone is this,
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Speaker 1: how many people here remember.
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Speaker 6: Life before Google?
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Speaker 1: All?
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Speaker 6: Right?
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Speaker 1: Do you remember what it was like to just have
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Speaker 1: a question that you wanted answered and you had to
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Speaker 1: actually go research it?
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Speaker 3: World Book, Encyclopedia, World Book.
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Speaker 6: Right, I'm too young, I remember.
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Speaker 1: We literally can't imagine or remember because it's become that
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Speaker 1: much apart. That's artificial intelligence, right, I mean, you have
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Speaker 1: a feed that gets populated when you go to your
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Speaker 1: Google app, and so when you think about it in
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Speaker 1: that light, now just imagine it being applied to everything,
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Speaker 1: and you begin to understand what we are dealing with.
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Speaker 1: And so the job of those of us who are
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Speaker 1: in positions of trust, where people who are vulnerable are
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Speaker 1: depending upon us to be advocates for them. Is to
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Speaker 1: really understand the magnitude of the lift.
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Speaker 6: We literally have to be.
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Speaker 1: Obsessed with making sure we understand it, we understand how
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Speaker 1: it will be applied well enough so that we can
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Speaker 1: support others who are gonna need to be able to
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Speaker 1: function in a world with that when they haven't truly
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Speaker 1: been able to function effectively in this world.
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Speaker 6: So it's it's a.
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Speaker 2: Lot if I want a piece of this pie, and
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Speaker 2: I wanted to look for where to start, what types
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Speaker 2: of jobs, what types of education?
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Speaker 3: Where do I begin?
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Speaker 2: Because a lot of people don't know where to even
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Speaker 2: start when it comes to looking at this and looking
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Speaker 2: at the future.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think it depends on your age, right
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Speaker 3: where you are.
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Speaker 7: I mean I think a good you know, the public
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Speaker 7: education system again in high school is you know, they're
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Speaker 7: focusing on this on how do we prepare people for
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Speaker 7: these future careers. I think, you know, Dallas College has
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Speaker 7: a lot of offerings in you know, in certificate programs.
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Speaker 7: I think every company has, you know, thinking about what
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Speaker 7: what are they going to do AI wise? And they've
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Speaker 7: got their own training programs. So I think, you know,
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Speaker 7: Dallas College, DSDA College.
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Speaker 3: Quinn College. Of course, I'm gonna let you pump your
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Speaker 3: own college. I'm gonna let you, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Let you talk about you you kid, just have you
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Speaker 1: do a commercial and non.
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Speaker 3: Right, Well, I want you to talk about your own stuff.
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Speaker 7: I mean Dallas College and DSD I know much, you know,
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Speaker 7: Paul Quinn. So I would say, look at those resources.
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Speaker 7: But within companies, they all have got programs. I mean,
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Speaker 7: every company has got a training program. And if they don't,
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Speaker 7: they're partnering with a you know, institution, They're partnering with someone,
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Speaker 7: so I think, you know.
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Speaker 3: And then there's there's online training programs.
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Speaker 7: We were talking about this backstage, that institution of higher
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Speaker 7: learning that you wouldn't normally think about having online, and
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Speaker 7: I t has got online different things. And so I
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Speaker 7: will say, though we've got great local resources here, I
17:38
Speaker 7: don't know that you need to look for, but there's
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Speaker 7: you know, you can probably google it and find out
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Speaker 7: where to where to go for these.
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Speaker 5: So I think we have to back up a little
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Speaker 5: bit because your question says, if I were to want
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Speaker 5: to do something about this, where would I go to
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Speaker 5: find the information? I think we have to go back
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Speaker 5: a step further and deal with the want to. UH.
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Speaker 5: Being smart has not been marketed to our community. Being brilliant,
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Speaker 5: being astute has not been marketed to our young people
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Speaker 5: in the way that it really ought to be marketed.
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Speaker 5: What has been marketed is music, hip hop, sports and
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Speaker 5: those things that have been marketed to us. We have
18:20
Speaker 5: done well in those things. Where the floor is flat
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Speaker 5: and the rules are clear. We excel the basketball. The
18:28
Speaker 5: floor is flat, the rules are clear. We excel football.
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Speaker 5: The floor is flat, the rules are clear, we excel.
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Speaker 5: When it comes to technology, the floor is not flat.
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Speaker 5: We're three point eight percent of the technological people who
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Speaker 5: are really invested in AI. It has been additionally, there's
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Speaker 5: no place to see it. There's no place to watch it.
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Speaker 5: We have not made it sexy to see. We have
18:51
Speaker 5: not made it desirable. So I think we have to
18:54
Speaker 5: start at the marketing of the opportunity in order to
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Speaker 5: get people engage to the point that they want to.
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Speaker 5: Once they want to, then these solutions become apparent, and
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Speaker 5: quite frankly, when students have a demand colleges adjus curriculum.
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Speaker 5: But if there's no demand for the courses being offered,
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Speaker 5: nobody can maintain a course where there's no demand for it,
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Speaker 5: So we have to go back to the thirst.
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Speaker 6: If the thirst is.
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Speaker 5: Not if they don't see it on TV, they don't
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Speaker 5: hear it in music, they don't hear it in the house.
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Speaker 5: And the truth of the matter is, I think it's
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Speaker 5: something like forty percent of African American homes and Hispanic
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Speaker 5: homes don't have high definition technology that would allow them
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Speaker 5: to even experiment with.
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Speaker 6: It, so it really doesn't exist to them.
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Speaker 5: And then when they go out to the job for
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Speaker 5: us and they're unable to compete, then crime, anger, frustration,
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Speaker 5: disappointment opens a door, and I think we have to
19:54
Speaker 5: start with creating an appetite for this and advertising it.
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Speaker 5: That's why we do STEAM because the stat suggests that
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Speaker 5: the arch are a good gateway to get people involved
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Speaker 5: into two production, film, development, music.
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Speaker 6: That sort of thing.
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Speaker 5: It's a good gateway to get them connected with what
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Speaker 5: algorithms mean and what they do and how they work,
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Speaker 5: and then from there they can channel into perhaps other
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Speaker 5: aspects and other opportunities and ventricles through which they Right now,
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Speaker 5: the only thing that's advertised is the stage, so we
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Speaker 5: think of being on the stage rather than owning the stage.
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Speaker 2: When people are intimidated by this because there are people
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Speaker 2: that are concerned about AI and the humanity and the
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Speaker 2: empathy that some jobs require, that some jobs might be
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Speaker 2: replaced by a computer or artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 3: How do we, I.
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Speaker 2: Guess quell that fear that people might have that are
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Speaker 2: concerned about this technology that maybe don't won't have anything
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Speaker 2: to do with it.
21:01
Speaker 3: Where do we begin with that?
21:03
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, we tell them the truth. There
21:07
Speaker 1: are a bunch of jobs that are absolutely going to
21:09
Speaker 1: go away.
21:11
Speaker 7: And thirty percent are going to be displaced automation in
21:14
Speaker 7: the next five years.
21:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty percent. And the thirty percent that are going
21:19
Speaker 1: to be replaced are the people who are the least skilled,
21:26
Speaker 1: right or the majority of the thirty percent, right. So
21:30
Speaker 1: we now have a responsibility of addressing the skills deficit.
21:36
Speaker 1: And you know, I tell my college president friends this
21:41
Speaker 1: all the time. You have a responsibility of expanding how
21:46
Speaker 1: you deliver education. It simply cannot be We're just going
21:51
Speaker 1: to make sure they get four year degrees. One of
21:54
Speaker 1: the reasons why we added certificate programs is because you
21:57
Speaker 1: have to meet people where they are and you have
22:00
Speaker 1: to create pathways where people can reskill and upskill continuously.
22:06
Speaker 1: Everyone in the liberal arts community people talk about being
22:09
Speaker 1: lifelong learners and always laugh about that. I think it's
22:13
Speaker 1: great to be a lifelong learner. I think it is
22:15
Speaker 1: way better to be a lifelong earner. And so we
22:19
Speaker 1: as institutions have to create on and off ramps that
22:23
Speaker 1: are seamless, that are inexpensive, that allow people to skill
22:28
Speaker 1: themselves into a different economic place easily without spending the
22:34
Speaker 1: next one hundred years of their families' lives repaying student loans.
22:38
Speaker 1: So we have to reimagine education.
22:41
Speaker 7: And you had something, Yeah, I do, I think, and
22:42
Speaker 7: I think corporations are thinking that too. I'm going to
22:45
Speaker 7: give a shout out to Parkland Health and Hospital System,
22:48
Speaker 7: who is an awesome partner. And I will tell you
22:51
Speaker 7: in terms of upskilling. So if you come in with like,
22:53
Speaker 7: let's flebottomy or patient care technician, one of those things,
22:57
Speaker 7: they have a chart that says, if I do another
23:00
Speaker 7: like eight week certificate program, I'm going to move up.
23:02
Speaker 7: And so it's really I mean, they're so intentional, and
23:04
Speaker 7: they're also intentional about hiring people that represent who they
23:08
Speaker 7: actually take care of. So it's it's beautiful. They're great partners.
23:10
Speaker 7: But I think all corporations are looking at how do
23:12
Speaker 7: I retain my talent because it is so competitive right
23:17
Speaker 7: now in terms of getting good workers. I mean people,
23:20
Speaker 7: the gig economy is huge. People want to drive uber,
23:22
Speaker 7: they want to you know, do some Starbucks for their health,
23:25
Speaker 7: and they want to shop, you know, do the online
23:28
Speaker 7: shopping thing. And so you've got that big gig economy
23:31
Speaker 7: that's taken a lot of people out. And so if
23:33
Speaker 7: you can get someone that is trained, that is ready
23:36
Speaker 7: to go, they want to hold on to those workers.
23:38
Speaker 7: And so there's a lot of companies that have real
23:41
Speaker 7: solid upskilling programs. But what Michael said is exactly right.
23:44
Speaker 7: We have got to give certificates and credentials that lead
23:47
Speaker 7: to a job. It cannot be a you got your
23:49
Speaker 7: four degree, it got you to your degree, let's go.
23:50
Speaker 7: It has to be a hard handoff because the time
23:53
Speaker 7: that someone has between graduating from high school or that
23:57
Speaker 7: two year in six months, they can fall into to
24:01
Speaker 7: all kinds of things.
24:02
Speaker 3: And you know that with the beat that you cover,
24:04
Speaker 3: and that's what happens.
24:05
Speaker 7: And so hardhands off certificates, credentials getting in with companies
24:08
Speaker 7: that have upskilling programs, and I.
24:10
Speaker 3: Will tell you that they're doing that.
24:12
Speaker 7: They're upskilling folks these days, and so it's it's yeah,
24:15
Speaker 7: I mean, the opportunities there, but we've just got to be,
24:18
Speaker 7: like you said, intentional about it. And companies want to
24:21
Speaker 7: hold onto their employees now when they're good workers.
24:23
Speaker 5: So you know, I just want to inject this little thought,
24:27
Speaker 5: the word that she just used, I thought was very important,
24:31
Speaker 5: intentional the erosion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which continues
24:36
Speaker 5: to erode in our society, especially since the Supreme Court
24:40
Speaker 5: Affirmative Action decision. Immediately the next day the people started
24:45
Speaker 5: getting fired. The problem with that is it's a stats
24:49
Speaker 5: show that not only is it the right thing to do,
24:51
Speaker 5: the moral thing to do, but it also it's a
24:53
Speaker 5: more profitable thing to do. Companies that engage in diversity
24:57
Speaker 5: have a twenty to thirty percent incre in profit margins.
25:02
Speaker 6: But we must be intentional.
25:04
Speaker 5: About it on all fronts, from employers to employees, to
25:09
Speaker 5: families to educational institutions. It is naive to think that
25:14
Speaker 5: we will organically see the infusion of all people represented
25:19
Speaker 5: in the workforce just by prayer. We're going to have
25:25
Speaker 5: to be intentional we're going to have to be We're
25:27
Speaker 5: going to have to go after it. We're going to
25:29
Speaker 5: have to make it a priority, and we're going to
25:31
Speaker 5: have to get unusual disruptive alliances, like what you see
25:36
Speaker 5: on the stage is a disruptive alliance. These disruptive alliances
25:41
Speaker 5: and connections between organizations that traditionally may not work together,
25:45
Speaker 5: not opposed to each other, just wouldn't organically work together,
25:49
Speaker 5: are the key to bringing about change. It's going to
25:52
Speaker 5: take disruptive thinking to solve the problem. Because the projection
25:57
Speaker 5: is that thirty percent that she's talking about is eighty
26:00
Speaker 5: five million people, which is about a third of the
26:02
Speaker 5: population here in the US. It's going to fall into
26:06
Speaker 5: the abyss of poverty, the abyss of unemployment. The projections
26:11
Speaker 5: are clear, and Covid if anything, hastened it because it
26:15
Speaker 5: brought us into deeper technology more quickly and more rapidly.
26:19
Speaker 5: And so that's a very frightening thought. I think we
26:21
Speaker 5: have to be proactive. While we're working at one job,
26:25
Speaker 5: we've got to be trying to get a certificate in
26:27
Speaker 5: the next job so that we can go to Paul
26:30
Speaker 5: quinn okay or and get a certificate so that when
26:36
Speaker 5: the bell rings and your job has been liquidated. Imagine
26:41
Speaker 5: if you were a telephone repairman and you spent all
26:46
Speaker 5: your life doing telephone repair, fixing phone booths, would you
26:50
Speaker 5: have a job today? Absolutely not. Those jobs are all gone.
26:55
Speaker 5: Lots and lots of those jobs are gone. Manufacturing jobs
26:58
Speaker 5: are gone in this country. A lot of industrial jobs
27:01
Speaker 5: are gone in this country. A lot of the people
27:03
Speaker 5: who are angry in this country right now about economic
27:07
Speaker 5: inequities are the offspring of.
27:11
Speaker 6: The last change.
27:13
Speaker 5: We went through, and they lost their job at Pittsburgh
27:16
Speaker 5: Steel and Unique carbat and all of that, and they
27:19
Speaker 5: haven't been upwardly mobile since. This is about to happen again.
27:23
Speaker 5: So if we don't learn from what we went through
27:25
Speaker 5: the first time, we're going to be ill prepared for
27:28
Speaker 5: the second one.
27:30
Speaker 6: Can I add something?
27:31
Speaker 1: It is a fallacy for anyone to believe that conversations
27:38
Speaker 1: about expanding your skill set don't take place at the
27:42
Speaker 1: upper echelon of companies, law firms, and things of that nature.
27:47
Speaker 1: When I was a baby lawyer in the mid nineteen nineties,
27:52
Speaker 1: one of the partners pulled me aside and said, you
27:56
Speaker 1: must be obsessive about learning new areas and learning new
28:02
Speaker 1: skills because business happens in cycles. And I was a
28:08
Speaker 1: corporate securities lawyer. I did mergers and acquisitions. And she said,
28:12
Speaker 1: there are periods where there aren't very many mergers and acquisitions,
28:15
Speaker 1: there are bankruptcies, and you've got to figure out a
28:19
Speaker 1: way to ensure that you are always profitable. They had
28:25
Speaker 1: that conversation with me at twenty seven years old. I
28:28
Speaker 1: never forgot it. So what Bishop is describing, when Lynn
28:31
Speaker 1: is describing, is simply the extension of those real world
28:35
Speaker 1: conversations to everyone up and down the socioeconomic status classes.
28:41
Speaker 6: That is what we are talking about.
28:44
Speaker 2: When we talk about jobs going away. There are jobs
28:47
Speaker 2: that are going to be created millions by AI. So
28:50
Speaker 2: what types of jobs? And I'm sitting out there, what
28:53
Speaker 2: should I be looking for? What's what are the sexy
28:57
Speaker 2: jobs that are going to be created? I guess by
29:00
Speaker 2: but I don't.
29:00
Speaker 7: Know if I can talk about the sexy jobs from AI.
29:02
Speaker 7: But the jobs right now, if you want a job
29:04
Speaker 7: in healthcare, transportation, logistics.
29:07
Speaker 3: It, construction trades, those are where the jobs are.
29:11
Speaker 7: I mean, we're going to be building a lot of things,
29:13
Speaker 7: and I think AI just lets us do all these
29:14
Speaker 7: things faster. I'm not an expert on an AI, but
29:17
Speaker 7: I will tell you in every single one of those
29:18
Speaker 7: industry verticals, there are so many jobs. We're going to
29:22
Speaker 7: be building so many things, the convention center, the fair park, everything,
29:26
Speaker 7: So we need, you know, people in trades, transportational logistics,
29:30
Speaker 7: all of that's moving faster. You know, healthcare we've talked about,
29:34
Speaker 7: and everything's going to be sped up by AI. But
29:36
Speaker 7: those are places you can get solid jobs and you
29:38
Speaker 7: can really work to upskill.
29:40
Speaker 1: So but you have to have a foundational knowledge and technology. Yeah,
29:45
Speaker 1: all right, So we used to have the trades and schools,
29:51
Speaker 1: and if we had the trades in school now students
29:56
Speaker 1: would be learning computers. If you take your car to
30:01
Speaker 1: the mechanics, they're using computers. Everyone's using computers. So we
30:11
Speaker 1: have to make sure that all of our students are
30:15
Speaker 1: comfortable with the digital currency. And that's more than TikTok.
30:21
Speaker 1: That's more than snapchat, it's more than social media. It's
30:25
Speaker 1: understanding foundationally how you get to the point where social
30:29
Speaker 1: media is being utilized. We have to have a foundational
30:33
Speaker 1: understanding of the digital currency.
30:36
Speaker 5: One thing that I want to piggyback off of that
30:39
Speaker 5: and say that's really important. At the core of the problem.
30:44
Speaker 5: We are consumers. We consume technology. The latest gadgets to
30:49
Speaker 5: come out, we buy them. We buy them all the time.
30:51
Speaker 5: We are a consumer is a consumeristic society. America in general,
30:56
Speaker 5: African Americans specifically, we are taught to zoom technology. We
31:01
Speaker 5: have nothing against it. Now you can get your blood
31:04
Speaker 5: pressure taken, you can get your blood sugar regulated to
31:07
Speaker 5: because of technology. Those are all great things. We buy them.
31:11
Speaker 5: We don't make them. We don't fix them, we don't
31:15
Speaker 5: market them, we don't produce them. We've got to figure
31:19
Speaker 5: out the core principle of be fruitful. What do you produce,
31:24
Speaker 5: not what do you buy? Because when you get down
31:27
Speaker 5: to produce, that's going to create the thirst that says,
31:31
Speaker 5: how does this work? How does this work? How does
31:35
Speaker 5: this work? Those types of questions where we become curious
31:38
Speaker 5: about making things rather than buying things, it's going to
31:42
Speaker 5: change our appetite for what we pursue as careers and
31:46
Speaker 5: change our appetite with It's not how much you know,
31:51
Speaker 5: it's what you ask. Everybody's using it, but only a
31:55
Speaker 5: few people are thinking about making it or fixing it.
31:58
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the Industrial revolution back in the day,
32:01
Speaker 2: and how this steam engine changed everything. This is revolutionizing
32:05
Speaker 2: literally everything. I think I read somewhere or I heard
32:09
Speaker 2: somewhere that was estimated trillions of dollars worth of economic
32:14
Speaker 2: impact over the next few years when it comes to
32:16
Speaker 2: artificial intelligence. So I'm getting a wrap here, But how
32:20
Speaker 2: what are your last words? What's your last advice when
32:23
Speaker 2: it comes to this issue, and how we can succeed,
32:26
Speaker 2: how we don't get left behind, how we can all collaborate.
32:30
Speaker 1: I want to the bishop's point about becoming producers of things.
32:37
Speaker 1: We all have to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, right. We
32:42
Speaker 1: have to be entrepreneurial in our thoughts and entrepreneurial and
32:45
Speaker 1: our action because at its core, I view AI as
32:49
Speaker 1: the ultimate entrepreneur. It is constantly looking for ways to
32:53
Speaker 1: improve what's around us. We have to develop that mindset
32:58
Speaker 1: as well. And it doesn't mean that we have to
33:00
Speaker 1: start with the most complicated thing. It can be the
33:05
Speaker 1: simplest thing. But we have to understand that the days
33:09
Speaker 1: of us going to school getting a degree, which by
33:13
Speaker 1: the way, you need to do life is fundamentally better
33:16
Speaker 1: when you have a degree. Right on all fronts, the
33:19
Speaker 1: data is very clear on that. But we have to
33:23
Speaker 1: let go of this idea that once we get that
33:25
Speaker 1: one degree, we're done. We're not done. The pace of
33:28
Speaker 1: change is just too rapid. We have to continuously be
33:32
Speaker 1: in growth mode. So we're going to have to encourage
33:35
Speaker 1: through our school systems that our students understand that they
33:38
Speaker 1: are continuously going to be in learning mode and growth
33:42
Speaker 1: mode so they can continuously be in earning mode.
33:46
Speaker 7: I read a stat the other day and it's said,
33:48
Speaker 7: a child that's graduating from high school right now, we'll
33:51
Speaker 7: have twenty three different jobs in their lifetime. And back
33:54
Speaker 7: when I was graduating, if you had twenty three different jobs,
33:56
Speaker 7: there was something wrong with you. You couldn't keep a job,
33:58
Speaker 7: right It was like, we can't hire that first. But
34:00
Speaker 7: I think you know, to your point, it's it's building
34:03
Speaker 7: up your your resume, whatever that is, whatever credential it is,
34:06
Speaker 7: whatever certificate is. But it's also building up the behavioral
34:10
Speaker 7: pieces and are you a good speaker, and do you
34:13
Speaker 7: have the great workplace etiquette and.
34:14
Speaker 3: All of those, so it's your whole thing.
34:17
Speaker 7: And and then to continue to just you know, beat
34:21
Speaker 7: the drum about upskilling yourself or looking.
34:25
Speaker 3: For that next opportunity.
34:26
Speaker 7: Like you said, you've got to be your own entrepreneur
34:28
Speaker 7: on your path, and I think you've got to, you know,
34:30
Speaker 7: say yes and explore all those opportunities that come. Because
34:33
Speaker 7: if you're going to have twenty three different jobs in
34:35
Speaker 7: your lifetime, you're not saying no a lot. Your mind
34:37
Speaker 7: is open and you're moving forward, and you're saying yes
34:40
Speaker 7: to upskilling and you're saying yes to.
34:42
Speaker 3: Getting a new skill.
34:43
Speaker 7: And so just you know, build up your build up
34:46
Speaker 7: your resume, build your credential, certificates your yourself, and say
34:50
Speaker 7: yes the opportunities that are going to come your way.
34:53
Speaker 6: The other thing, my final thought is.
34:57
Speaker 5: Technology, because it is predominantly creative of white males, does
35:02
Speaker 5: not recognize simple things like a soap dispenser recognizing a
35:09
Speaker 5: brown hand or face recognition with the phone a one
35:14
Speaker 5: hundred times less likely to recognize if it is a
35:18
Speaker 5: non white person using the artifact. Okay, so what we
35:23
Speaker 5: need is rather than to fix and refix and refix,
35:28
Speaker 5: is we need representation. Our workforce needs to look like
35:31
Speaker 5: our country. It needs to look like our leadership needs
35:35
Speaker 5: to look like our country. Our schools need to look
35:38
Speaker 5: like our country. Creating that kind of diversity, so that
35:42
Speaker 5: as technology takes over, it is programmed to understand that
35:46
Speaker 5: we're not just all white, young, young millennial or lower males,
35:51
Speaker 5: which is largely who has led the way. And that's
35:55
Speaker 5: great that they led the way, but they are not
35:57
Speaker 5: a full picture of all of America. So we need
36:00
Speaker 5: women represented, we need brown people and black people represented,
36:05
Speaker 5: so that as AI is artificial intelligence, it has to
36:09
Speaker 5: be programmed in if it doesn't see us, it doesn't
36:13
Speaker 5: see us.
36:15
Speaker 2: Wow, that's that is such a great point, Bishop, and
36:19
Speaker 2: I think if we get involved now, if we get
36:21
Speaker 2: our education now, five years from now, ten years from now,
36:25
Speaker 2: believe in a couple of years from now, we're way
36:27
Speaker 2: further ahead than everybody else. We need to get on
36:29
Speaker 2: the ball, like right now, go and do your thing,
36:33
Speaker 2: and go to Paul Quinn College.
36:36
Speaker 7: Qun, go to Paul Quinn College, do I know, Go
36:40
Speaker 7: to the hiring mixture that's out here.
36:41
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
36:42
Speaker 7: Look if it's lots of companies, yep, lots of opportunities
36:44
Speaker 7: for jobs.
36:45
Speaker 2: Thank you so much to all our panelists, Please give
36:47
Speaker 2: them a round of applause. It's yeah, they deserve a
36:55
Speaker 2: big standing ovation because this is a big think tank
36:59
Speaker 2: that we have here. Thank you so much, and I
37:05
Speaker 2: think we have some announcements now, and I wish we'd
37:09
Speaker 2: had time for questions, because I'm sure you have a
37:10
Speaker 2: thousand questions.
37:11
Speaker 3: But I think this is a great conversation.
37:14
Speaker 2: Bishop, Thank you so much for bringing us together and
37:17
Speaker 2: always leading the way and leading the way.
37:22
Speaker 5: I'm glad to do it. I'm excited about it. Great
37:25
Speaker 5: things are going to come out of it. Great things
37:26
Speaker 5: are going to come out of today. Proud to be
37:29
Speaker 5: a part of the foundation. A lot of people are
37:30
Speaker 5: going to get jobs today. When people get jobs, children
37:34
Speaker 5: get fed, they're more a learned in school, crime goes down,
37:39
Speaker 5: the city becomes more livable. This is a great thing.