on prestigious boards and panels. I am tremendously grateful for these opportunities and for the wonderful people I’ve met along the way. But deep down inside, I’m still the kid who grew up in a family of sharecroppers and bootleggers in a small town in the Deep South. I’m still most comfortable picking greens with my childhood friend Ed, chatting with a single mother while waiting in line at Popeyes, or sitting on the steps of a row-house porch in Philadelphia with my friend Shane and some of his young neighbors as we enjoy a sunny afternoon together and wipe ice cream from the kids’ faces.
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