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Bright Futures

Bright Futures

Written by: Guilford Education Alliance
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 We are talking about big education issues that are shaping our future.Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
Episodes
  • EP 11: Get in the Game, Part 2

    EP 11: Get in the Game, Part 2
    Dec 20 2022

    Marcus Gause and Erik Naglee continue their conversation with Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter and Kevin Jordan, the young man to whom he donated a kidney. Tom and Kevin explore how sports can level the playing field and why this generation of young people give them hope. It's an inspiring conversation!

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    29 mins
  • EP 10: Getting in the Game, Part 1

    EP 10: Getting in the Game, Part 1
    Dec 20 2022

    In 2009, Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter saved the life of freshman Kevin Jordan by donating a kidney to the young baseball recruit. Tom is white. Kevin is Black. The incredible act of generosity made the national news. In the lives of the two men, it connected them in more ways than they could ever imagine. In part 1, Marcus Gause and Erik Naglee talk with Tom and Kevin about their story and what led them to create Get in the Game, an initiative that uses sports to change real-world inequities.
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    22 mins
  • EP 9: Unchained Melody

    EP 9: Unchained Melody
    Dec 20 2022

    By the age of 21, Bilal Issifou had graduated from N.C. A&T State University, started his own successful tech company and been featured in Forbes magazine. In this episode, Marcus Gause and Erik Naglee sit down with Issifou to talk about Unchained Inc. - Issifou's platform for Black professionals, code switching and what companies are getting wrong when they focus on diversity.

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    24 mins
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