00:00:00:00 - 00:00:05:01 Unknown Oh. 00:00:05:01 - 00:00:33:01 Unknown I'm Doctor Patrick Marshall, and to, give you a little bit of background regarding, law and business. And the reason I pursued it in higher education was for me, it actually stemmed from my mother. My mom is like my my hero, my inspiration. And I grew up in an environment where it was, in the inner cities of LA, and it just wasn't conducive when we were when I was younger. 00:00:33:01 - 00:00:55:15 Unknown So a lot of individuals don't really have the opportunities and the drive and determination. There's obstacles that are put in your way. And I watched my mom sacrifice a lot. And through that sacrifice, you know, and her belief in people and belief and giving hope to others, it was a real catalyst for me. So when we actually went to Sacramento, that's where my my real journey kind of began. 00:00:55:15 - 00:01:00:01 Unknown And, and then I became an advocate for people. And it's all thanks to her. 00:01:00:01 - 00:01:13:20 Unknown through her I was able to learn and understand with, you know, advocacy really is. So I advocated for those who are less fortunate. And I was able to take that knowledge is what made me want to pursue law. So I was able to go into the legal field. 00:01:13:20 - 00:01:38:19 Unknown And I knew that having the law background would give me that sword and shield to be able to advocate for those who are less fortunate and be able to fight for those of their rights, their civil liberties, and so and fight to, you know, give them the hope that they deserve. And that was such a special thing for me because law, especially in today's society, is, you know, it can be used for different circumstances. 00:01:38:19 - 00:02:01:08 Unknown And for me, given being able to help those understand what the legal concepts are and understand what the law is and how it can help them and benefit them, means the world to me. And that led me to business. So business has always been like a cornerstone for me. That is something that I learned. You know, that actually kind of manifested itself when I actually worked in retail. 00:02:01:10 - 00:02:23:23 Unknown And a lot of brilliant people came into my life and they were like, hey, do you actually understand business and and culturally in my community, in the black community, and even in the brown community, you don't really understand that. And the intricacies of business, and you don't understand how business can shape and save your life and how to help you out and how you can expand and what really, you know, people get in the businesses and they make mistakes. 00:02:24:01 - 00:02:48:10 Unknown And I wanted to be able to advocate for those who are less fortunate. And then a good friend of mine, his name is Captain Gurpreet Gill. And what I love about him, him and I built a wonderful college collaborative program is, you know, business oriented. It was a business model we put into effect. And he decided he wanted to get an MBA and is unheard of of such an law enforcement officer who wants to take that next journey. 00:02:48:13 - 00:03:03:11 Unknown So he came to me, wanted to get an MBA. I was in law school. He said he had I have a dream that, you know, you and I would walk the stage together and and I was like, for myself, I was like, you're crazy. I got him in law school second year. I really don't want to do it. 00:03:03:14 - 00:03:21:12 Unknown But, you know, I actually wanted to let him know and surprise him. And then I reached out to CSU San Bernardino, and then that's where I met Molly. And then I met Lauren. And I was such a great thing for me because I was like, yeah, I'm in law school, and I think I just want to, you know, do this MBA program. 00:03:21:14 - 00:03:36:13 Unknown And they were like, you're crazy. And I was like, the reality of it is I was like, I can do it. And I was going to the second year, I knew I was gonna have all these classes, and I was weighing the options, and I said, you know what? For him, I'm going to do this. And I talked to them and they were very supportive. 00:03:36:16 - 00:03:57:17 Unknown And I was able to actually, you know, just kind of focus in and it just kind of manifested and it's been one of the best opportunities and best blessing that I've had, because learning from business and taking what I've learned here and implementing it does not even in my realm, in my world, I've actually been able to expand businesses because of the knowledge I gained from here. 00:03:57:19 - 00:04:14:28 Unknown And between that and the law brings that healthy balance, and it allows me to advocate for those who are are definitely less fortunate and want to be able to put them on the path and give those concepts. And what I the knowledge that I've learned. So that's what kind of inspired me to, you know, a little bit of the background and a little bit of the inspiration of where I come from. 00:04:14:28 - 00:04:35:00 Unknown So juggling them, going to law school and the MBA program was definitely challenging, and it was a struggle to manage my time. And it was more of a is an endurance thing, where law school was the endurance and that was the marathon. I knew I had years to go there and it was going to be an I'd already. 00:04:35:00 - 00:04:59:08 Unknown I was in my second year, and then I also knew the MBA, what I was trying to accomplish would be a sprint. So when I actually combined and I was doing the three substantive law classes and the two clinics, and then on top of it, taking on the four classes a semester, trying to push the envelope so I can actually, you know, graduate on time and accomplish all the goals and keep everything situated was actually just mind boggling. 00:04:59:08 - 00:05:13:09 Unknown the biggest challenge was just not sleeping. I didn't sleep and I broke all the rules. I lived off sugar free Red Bulls and I did. I be very honest about it, I did, I stayed up, I was probably up. I had study times. I studied 00:05:13:09 - 00:05:16:13 Unknown probably like six, seven hours a day. 00:05:16:15 - 00:05:34:10 Unknown I would wake up in like three, three to like six, then go to work, then go back, study on my lunch break thing and stay up from about nine to about two and study again to make sure everything was done so I could, you know, get it all done. Then I had certain days because of the way the programs I worked it out. 00:05:34:10 - 00:05:40:13 Unknown So we're, you know, I knew my law school days and how much I needed to put in on that. And then I also knew, 00:05:40:13 - 00:05:51:16 Unknown what I really needed to do for the MBA. And I dedicated certain days to that where it would just be me focused on that. Then the benefit of it was there's a crossover element. 00:05:51:19 - 00:06:01:13 Unknown So when you think a business, business law, business, the contracts and stuff like that. So I was able to pick up stuff very quickly from the legal aspect and then just transition or 00:06:01:13 - 00:06:12:10 Unknown take that knowledge in a body of knowledge I learned in law school and implement it into how I was doing my MBA program. And then when I actually got into business, Lamaze on my final semester, I had business law 00:06:12:10 - 00:06:13:15 Unknown and I had the MBA. 00:06:13:15 - 00:06:38:07 Unknown So when I was going into that, that last little turn, it was actually it worked very, very well for me because there was a huge crossover and I was able to take a lot of the knowledge I was reading there and transfer it right into the business aspect and the, I would say, the most challenging part of business school of the MBA program was when you're looking at business as a whole, you're talking about different elements of business. 00:06:38:07 - 00:06:57:09 Unknown You're looking at the grand design of how it should be, and then, you know, versus the legal aspect of it, you have to actually know how to understand a business. You're looking at different, you know, different methodologies and different things and different challenges. And, you know, and it's challenging you. So what would you do if you wanted to build a business? 00:06:57:11 - 00:07:13:17 Unknown How you look at contracts, how you look at the overall arching, you know, what it is for business purposes. And that was also that for me. I found that to be a little challenging because some of the reading was a little bit different than what I was used to legal reading. So I actually had, read it from a different lens. 00:07:13:17 - 00:07:29:21 Unknown And switching like that sometimes was sometimes difficult, and it was tiring and I fell asleep. I'll be very honest with you. I fell asleep a lot of times and fell asleep in the book and had to reread and know that sometimes my face was on the tablet and I had the NBA stuff in my eye. Oh god, I gotta reread this and I couldn't remember. 00:07:29:21 - 00:07:40:17 Unknown And then, for the last stuff it would be the same thing. So. And then once I got into a rhythm and I knew exactly what I was going to do, I was able to find success there and overcome the challenges that were set forth. 00:07:40:17 - 00:07:51:00 Unknown So the most valuable lessons I learned from the MBA program is marketing. Marketing was a huge one. I really enjoyed marketing. And then supply chain. 00:07:51:00 - 00:08:02:27 Unknown those were two that really kind of stood out. And then just how to develop a business and a business approach and what I should be looking at and how the data reflects, because a lot of individuals don't know what data driven decisions are. 00:08:02:27 - 00:08:25:22 Unknown And when you're actually doing data driven and risk analysis and needs assessment and resource allocation. And this is stuff you learn in MBA program. And it was a more I had a little tidbits and I've done it because I've been in high level senior positions. So I had an idea, but I didn't know how it truly worked. And then once I got into it, man, it just kind of opened the floodgates. 00:08:25:22 - 00:08:45:00 Unknown I it was clear I understood how I'm going to allocate resources to build programs. How you do the same thing in business was there from it to, you know, your cost analysis, and then you're doing comparative cost and you learning all these elements and you learn how to apply it. And what's the importance and what are your overhead is how to forecast for business. 00:08:45:02 - 00:09:09:08 Unknown And you look at it on a broader scope because it was an executive management. So I was preparing myself to take that next step into the executive level and to understand what was, it was providing me clarity on the direction I truly wanted to go was has, you know, for me, currently has led to me opening up my own consulting business and opening up business and working with investors. 00:09:09:08 - 00:09:34:08 Unknown I have venture capitalists now, and I learned all this from the MBA program. I would never have known that and had venture capitalists and worked with investors and all this stuff. You hear those things, but you don't know how. But then now you know, those doors are open and I was able to make those connections and really build a different whole pathway for myself when it came to business and opportunities to be able to help those who are less fortunate. 00:09:34:08 - 00:09:52:04 Unknown the significance of the college collaborative system is that it provides wraparound support while they're in custody, and it allows them to get the education free of charge. They don't have to pay for anything. They get to go to the college of their choice. We waived all the jurisdictional lines under title five. They have jurisdiction over community colleges. 00:09:52:06 - 00:10:12:17 Unknown We waive all those jurisdictional lines and which allowed these individuals to be able to go to the multiple colleges while in custody. The benefit of it is, is that once upon release, they get to go back to because, you know, everybody comes from different areas. So they now get to go back to the location of their choice, where they're wherever they're college, they choose to, and all those credits follow them. 00:10:12:20 - 00:10:30:26 Unknown So they get to, you know, and everything goes with them, and then they get wraparound support. One of the biggest things, like I quote, one of the presidents, Doctor Pedro Avila from Galvin, he goes, you flip the jail into a convenient community college, made a consist of six colleges. And what I did was start flipping the the community colleges and the reentry centers. 00:10:30:28 - 00:10:48:10 Unknown So now they get that wraparound support and that transitional of their choice, and then they get all the stuff that they would get on a regular reentry center. Plus, because the colleges can provide that wraparound support and then they focus on, you know, not only getting them ready for transition into higher education and then going on to get their bachelor's and everything else. 00:10:48:12 - 00:11:12:14 Unknown But they give them that wraparound support from housing to the they can further their mental health. They have access to health. And we really want to do that. We really wanted to provide them a wraparound support service that was highlighted by Access to Education, because that's the main purpose of why I took on the the challenge, because from an institutional standpoint, jails are notorious for not providing the necessary education for individuals to be successful. 00:11:12:17 - 00:11:30:21 Unknown And I really wanted to make a change there. And access to education is one of the biggest barriers that we see that hinders especially minority communities. Black and brown communities are truly hindered by this, and jail settings are. That's the majority of your population in they're impacted. But I wanted to put something that was going to really shape them and give them that access. 00:11:30:21 - 00:11:49:23 Unknown And that's where the college collaborative came, and it was a journey. But it was and that's and to give them the opportunity to have hope and aspire to be who they are and what they can go after their education and be able to change their, their, their chance, you know, because when you go to jail, jail is traumatizing. 00:11:49:25 - 00:11:54:21 Unknown And I like I always say, in order to get rid of the drama, you got to address the trauma 00:11:54:21 - 00:12:06:07 Unknown and you got to be able to address it. If you can't address that trauma, it's just and you and jail is traumatizing. It's traumatizing for the people who work there. It's traumatizing for the individuals in there and especially for them. 00:12:06:14 - 00:12:32:28 Unknown And they don't have that access. They you know, every day you're getting up into an environment that's not conducive. So to be able to shape that environment in a way that gives them not only hope and that and then they have wraparound, supportive people believing in them. And now you have professors and you have, you know, you have deans and you have presidents, and you have, you know, the deputies buying and you have sergeants, you have everybody buying and showing them that, hey, we believe in this system. 00:12:32:28 - 00:12:50:14 Unknown We believe in you, and we're here for you, gives them that hope and that determination to have success and to let them know, even if they do a survey, this is still here for you. This journey and paths. We're going to support you through that journey. And it's such a crucial thing to see them be able to shape 00:12:50:14 - 00:12:52:20 Unknown and literally transform their futures. 00:12:52:22 - 00:12:53:28 Unknown And we see so much success. 00:12:53:28 - 00:13:23:20 Unknown there's hundreds of individuals who are out there in the community who have gone through the program from tech to, to culinary to from the generally getting A's going online. There's just a wealth of opportunity. There's so many different college classes that have been offered. And I'm proud to say that the significant part, and not only the bringing the individuals hope, but to bringing the community together and to bring those college presidents down and have them work for social reform, correctional reform. 00:13:23:20 - 00:13:53:21 Unknown And we're trying to say that we're going to not as a community where we're going to fight for the access to education for individuals like the NAACP, working with them and having them have their and, you know, be a part of that community as well and connecting to them. So it's a broader whole. So we have that so that social approach to it and bringing the other community leaders to be able to change the narrative of what we're trying to do and highlight the importance of access to education is the most significant thing, because that is the what I want. 00:13:53:22 - 00:14:08:00 Unknown And I know I've reiterated that, and I'm going to always reiterated because it's an oppressive system. And if we don't fight to change that jail system, we're only going to allow individuals to continue to be hindered and not be able to move forward in their life. 00:14:08:00 - 00:14:09:24 Unknown the college collaborative system 00:14:09:24 - 00:14:12:26 Unknown it’s a business model that I came up with. 00:14:12:26 - 00:14:36:24 Unknown So I'm the designer, the inventor of it I pulled it together. They say I'm the founder. There's a lot of different things of what I am to the college collaborative system. And when I came up with the concept that I really had worked hard on it, and what I wanted to do was build, a system that's similar to, a solar system kind of thing, where the college's six colleges wraparound as like planets. 00:14:36:24 - 00:14:39:25 Unknown And then you have the sun is like the jail. So the jail is the centerpiece. 00:14:39:25 - 00:14:53:27 Unknown So we'll be leverage to go to the jail. And the jail would provide the colleges students. So and that's where the business model comes in. So I took the same things and the concepts that I was learning throughout my whole career and enhancing in business. 00:14:53:27 - 00:15:16:00 Unknown I said, okay, so I know of how to leverage this situation. So I, you know, I really wanted to fix, focus on something that would be build a system that was self-sustaining that I could remove myself from. And they can last on its own because the colleges would be the ones that support the jail, which is the colleges are also the community. 00:15:16:02 - 00:15:23:28 Unknown And I also bring community support, and they would be able to really kind of tear down the, the oppressive barriers to access to education. 00:15:23:28 - 00:15:41:13 Unknown the benefits of the college collaborative system for are there's huge benefits for the individuals who are just as involved, just as involved individuals are that we call them just involved students. Those are individuals that are incarcerated. And the benefits that they have is that they're able to get their college education. 00:15:41:13 - 00:16:02:27 Unknown They're able to go to the college of their choice. They're able to really kind of reshape their whole outlook and have belief in themselves to where they can have success out in the community. And it's really that whole process that we want to provide that wraparound support for that individual and really let them highlight their choice and let them have that belief in themselves. 00:16:03:00 - 00:16:27:09 Unknown And just like any other student has when they step on a college campus, we wanted to give that and you know that for them, when it came to their educational opportunities, one of the benefits is that a lot of people don't know is that we did a lot of surveys by hand and everything, so they got to choose the college courses of they did what they chose with their life and, their journey from communication to vocational, like, are the female population. 00:16:27:09 - 00:16:46:21 Unknown They were obsessed with all the vocational stuff, all the career, technical education, auto welding. And we we have numerous individuals who are welders now who especially. And it's such a, you know, you don't see that from from too many from the female population. And now they're actually, you know, iron workers and, and it was great to see them, like, strive and go after what they wanted. 00:16:46:21 - 00:17:06:14 Unknown And we were able to put those supports in. And it's about the encouragement and then the benefit for them. Is it not only gives them the employment opportunities, enhances their it brings them that hope and it also strengthens their from that family bond. So now they're getting to share with their family, and their families are seeing that they're doing something positive to change their life. 00:17:06:14 - 00:17:22:02 Unknown And then just getting transcripts and getting the judges and the rest of the community and stakeholders that are involved, like especially like the judges, because, you know, when they go to sentencing now, they can just give a judge a transcript and the judge knows they then they get upon release, they get released earlier. And that works in that process. 00:17:22:02 - 00:17:37:26 Unknown And they transition out into the community to go to their college and now their probation. If they're on probation, if they have that, they can just give them the transcripts so they know they're going to school. So those supports never stop. And everybody knows they're truly invested in their own future. And that's like, you know, we do that for every student. 00:17:37:26 - 00:18:00:18 Unknown It's the you know, and building out the enrollment and building on enrollment counselors and getting them counseling and getting them all the, you know, the trauma supports, because it's so crucial to have that, that foundation so they can actually have that wraparound support when they actually are deciding on their future. And we believe in them. And the impact on the community is huge 00:18:00:18 - 00:18:05:05 Unknown some people have, you know, misconception of what the, of justice involved individuals. 00:18:05:08 - 00:18:26:07 Unknown And that's a horrible misconception. They see it on a negative light, I don't. And getting them to be able to interact and getting individuals out in the community instead of isolating them and get them to go to the college campus and interact with different community members and get them to have connections and be able to verbalize how they're feeling and be a part of that system. 00:18:26:07 - 00:18:43:26 Unknown And and actually speak up and say, hey, that's not right. This is what we're enduring in custody. This is what we had a limited access to education. Now we have access to education so the community can buy in. So the community sees the benefit of what they're trying to accomplish, and then they're able to embrace and have that wraparound support. 00:18:44:03 - 00:19:02:05 Unknown And then we have such community, great community organizations that are aware of what we were doing. And they bought in and they brought other community leaders. And and once you start getting the community actively involved, we started having success. We did. I mean, there's been career fairs and things of that nature that we've actually brought out for the individuals. 00:19:02:05 - 00:19:12:17 Unknown So so they can continue not only for, you know, their employment purposes, but to connect with the community, getting them involved, letting them be a part of meetings, letting them share their story. 00:19:12:17 - 00:19:22:07 Unknown it's so crucial to the community for the community itself to hear those stories so they understand how it is to, you know, what they they get a clear understanding 00:19:22:07 - 00:19:31:17 Unknown of what these individuals are enduring and what's needed for them to have success and what it is to fail. 00:19:31:19 - 00:19:52:20 Unknown Because failure is something these guys have endured a lot of. So the benefit of the collaborative is not only if they fail, it's there when they come back, if they were set of eight. But we we provide that wraparound support and get them where they need to go. And that's the benefit. And that's why it's significant for these individuals, because the community has to embrace them 00:19:52:20 - 00:20:02:07 Unknown in order for them to have that success, and they have to believe that they're going in there with an opportunity and taking advantage of that opportunity for their own lives. 00:20:02:07 - 00:20:11:00 Unknown And they have first, it all starts with the individual before they can even address what the outcome in the community will be, and then the community has to be able to see. 00:20:11:00 - 00:20:19:23 Unknown And that's where all these other different community aspects come in. They're watching and it's not to see them fail. We all want to see them succeed. And don’t get me wrong. 00:20:19:23 - 00:20:24:14 Unknown There’s probably the individuals who are on the other on the latter part, but you want to see them succeed. 00:20:24:14 - 00:20:37:02 Unknown to have hope into somebody means the world to that individual, and they go back into a community, your family, you're you're, as I call it, your tribe. You go back there and they see you in a different light, gives these individuals that opportunity. 00:20:37:02 - 00:20:46:18 Unknown That's to to be able to change their life, their perspective and step in, step in the direction that they choose to for the betterment of their families. 00:20:46:18 - 00:21:19:27 Unknown The MBA had a huge impact on what I was trying to accomplish with the college collaborative system. When you are actually sitting down with college presidents, you're talking about mou rewriting MoU I it I came up with a good I am mou idea to waive the jurisdictional lines. But when you're looking at a bigger picture, when we grew past the pilot phase and we grew into what we became, and being able to sit down and talk about, you know, business, because at the end of the day, there's two separate philosophies at play here. 00:21:19:29 - 00:21:55:29 Unknown You have the individual social justice or fighting for this individual, but then you have multiple institutions. You have a jail institution, you have six colleges. All you know, with their own goals. And all goals need to be aligned. And from a business standpoint, you're leveraging resources. You need to understand how you're going to leverage those resources. You need to be able understand what's going to be crucial, in a leadership dynamic, who's going to be the the main person who's going to understand how leadership works, who's going to take the back seat, and who's going to be the one who drives the the bus and what everybody's role is. 00:21:56:06 - 00:22:34:25 Unknown And when you have presidents, they kind of want to be, you know, the driver of the bus. But then once you understand what they're coming from, they were the the community that I work with understood the significance of what we were trying to accomplish. And I learned that from business, from the MBA program. And it was so crucial for me because the leadership courses, the understanding, the nuances of leadership, being a transformational leader and getting individuals to buy into that transformational change and it's probably the most, the probably the hardest thing I had to do that that I think about challenging, that probably the most challenging thing is getting the buy in and then even 00:22:34:25 - 00:22:59:11 Unknown getting to the changing the culture of working in law enforcement. Those are things elements I learned in leadership from business, from the MBA program here. But one of the crucial things was just how to or manage an operation, because we were looking at billions of dollars in funding that causes bringing in here millions of dollars is like services and just assets and how to manage. 00:22:59:11 - 00:23:03:23 Unknown And then you got to know how to, you know what's right. You know what we can right off what we're doing 00:23:03:23 - 00:23:18:27 Unknown it's going to be a donation and that's a whole mess. And you learn the nuances of how to navigate business, and you learn these things along the way, and then understanding the data. And that was one of the best classes I had here at, CSU San Bernardino. 00:23:18:27 - 00:23:43:20 Unknown It was by far one of the best classes in my and in my research courses. And because the way we took on data and how we were able to graph and be and make data driven decisions and come into risk assessments and risk and needs assessment, and those are so crucial because when you're actually doing a quality improvement approach, and a lot of people don't understand why improvement is the key to business, and then you understand when you're actually looking at your needs, are developing a plan. 00:23:43:20 - 00:23:59:07 Unknown And this is what I learn from this is what I learned from the MBA program. You need to have a plan. You got to have that. You literally you're building it out. You're going, okay, I need to evaluate this continuous journey. You need to have goals. You need KPIs. A lot of individuals don't even know what a KPI it. 00:23:59:13 - 00:24:17:07 Unknown And when you look at your key performance indicators, those are so crucial. And then you're taking your original goal versus your actual goal. You're doing a comparative analysis. Then you go back and you do a risk assessment because the risk is going to tell you everything. Something changes. Your risk will tell you where the you know the hiccups are and you adjust to that risk. 00:24:17:13 - 00:24:26:09 Unknown It also lets you know if you've met your goals. You haven't. You're you're struggling in certain areas. And by being by having that ability to take a step back 00:24:26:09 - 00:24:40:23 Unknown and to be able to evaluate and understand where, where their struggle is, and building a program such as the college collaborative system and working with the individuals, you're able to see the landscape make the adjustment. 00:24:40:23 - 00:25:08:10 Unknown And that's all thanks to the data and the quality improvement and such a crucial thing. Because now and just like as I'm talking about it and using those this and using the lingo because it's like just breaking it down. Strategic planning, you learn this is like a strategic plan. You assess it, you evaluate it. You risk assess your needs, assess you know what your needs because you need your resources. 00:25:08:13 - 00:25:25:29 Unknown You need to allocate things change when the things change. And do another risk assessment, you might need to allocate funds in a different way. And that's all that I learn. And that's specifically from this program. And I took that knowledge and I was able to implement it into the college collaborative system. 00:25:25:29 - 00:25:31:05 Unknown the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity is the, the encore. 00:25:31:05 - 00:25:53:27 Unknown It's that actually the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity and Higher Education is the premier like the biggest race and ethnicity awards you can win. It's, the national recognition. It's through the University of Oklahoma and their, research development. They focus on this is it's the the conference. I've never seen anything like it. There was 5500 individuals. 00:25:53:27 - 00:26:21:20 Unknown It was in Hawaii this year and 1000 institutions. And everybody you can name was there. And you had, out of 1800 proposals. We were honored to be able to, as a college, come out, tell our college collaborative story. And what was unique about this? I had no clue that I was even. I knew some people I had nominated because it popped up saying I was nominated, but it turns out I actually won 00:26:21:20 - 00:26:25:02 Unknown the biggest award you can win this call the change agent of the year. 00:26:25:04 - 00:26:36:12 Unknown And what it is is that let everybody know you are this the your next. You're the next scholar to come in here. And what you've brought to the table is going to revolutionize, you know, 00:26:36:12 - 00:26:47:11 Unknown for individuals, for race. In my case, it's going to revolutionize social justice, correctional reform for those who are, for individuals who are marginalized. 00:26:47:13 - 00:27:05:09 Unknown And it was an honor for me to win it. But I have to be on with on. With all honesty, I had no clue the significance of the no clue. I was sitting there and then when the president found out, they go, do you know how big this award is? And I'm like, you know, it's okay. It's an award. 00:27:05:11 - 00:27:13:09 Unknown You know, I was happy to get it. But, you know, for me, to be very honest, we're all change agents. Every president, every dean, every professor, 00:27:13:09 - 00:27:19:14 Unknown the significance of the encore. So encore is the National Conference on Race and Ethnic Ethnicity. Higher education. 00:27:19:14 - 00:27:36:28 Unknown what I was significant about this award because the University of Oklahoma is the they're their research and development when it comes to race and ethnicity is like the the biggest in the nation. This is the national conference. Everybody thousands of schools participate. 00:27:36:28 - 00:27:44:16 Unknown Our colleges and university, they all participate. So for us it was such a crucial thing because 00:27:44:16 - 00:27:58:10 Unknown we actually got to tell our story. And that was the first thing is just being accepted, you know, out of one of the 1800 proposals to talk about the college collaborative story. And it's impactful work on the community was is truly significant. 00:27:58:17 - 00:28:11:00 Unknown And then I started getting a few nominations, and I really didn't understand the significance of these nominations. And then I found out I won Change Agent of the year. And the change Agent of the year is, 00:28:11:00 - 00:28:25:20 Unknown you know, and let everybody know that this individual is a scholar in the making and that they've evoked so much change that their, their, their model, their system or program is changing the landscape of, you know, the field that they're in. 00:28:25:20 - 00:28:53:12 Unknown So mine was changing the landscape of correctional reform and social reform. And, and wraparound support for justice involved individuals. And it was so significant that, individuals believe that I deserve that award. And it was actually for me, I didn't understand the significance of it. I actually kind of, you know, kind of minimized it. And I also thought as individuals, one the Cheryl Howard, I want to say is the Cheryl Hauer Award, and that's like a lifetime achievement award. 00:28:53:15 - 00:29:12:05 Unknown And I thought that was the biggest award. And somebody was like, no. And the president's go, and they were like, you need to understand the significance of what you want. And you're about to be nationally recognized. And actually, when I actually met and you're meeting leaders from all over the country at encore, you're meeting senators, you're meeting just a wealth of knowledge. 00:29:12:08 - 00:29:33:00 Unknown And they come up and they're sitting there and they go, your life is about to change forever. And I didn't understand that, but I understood that I was willing to accept it. But in core itself, that platform winning that award was one of the best feelings in the world for me, and it was one of the best feelings in the world because. 00:29:33:00 - 00:29:42:08 Unknown They even though they don't let you do a speech because there's, there's times constraints. But it was one of the things that stood out to me is that when I accepted the award, I pulled everybody together, 00:29:42:08 - 00:29:50:23 Unknown all the presidents, everybody like that. I emailed everybody to let them know that they're the true change agents, and I couldn't have done it without them. 00:29:50:25 - 00:30:07:06 Unknown And, you know, from even the even the justice involved individuals, their change agents, they're changing their life and they're giving us the opportunity to work with them. And then being able to work with community partners and people who believed in it. And that, for me, is such a crucial thing because those individuals need to be 00:30:07:06 - 00:30:17:14 Unknown respected and their changes, like, you know, Captain Gurpreet Gill, his ability to transmute, my vision in a correctional environment is phenomenal. 00:30:17:17 - 00:30:37:13 Unknown And I was proud of him. And he's a change that I've never seen before. He's, you know, embraces that. And then the president's embrace it. And now we have true social reform. And now the the benefits of that is that the college collaborative is self-sustaining. You can grow, you can develop, it can become the model for other throughout the country. 00:30:37:13 - 00:31:02:02 Unknown And that was always our goal. I didn't want to have just be, oh, you created a program in Santa Clara County. I wanted to be to set the standard so everybody now knows there's a significant model that truly does work for the for the betterment of the justice involved individuals. And that's what anchored that was that platform. And that win allowed the nation to know who I am and what's been created. 00:31:02:02 - 00:31:15:14 Unknown And the team who came together to form this and our approach to, you know, our approach to getting more access to education for the justice, all individuals. So it was a very powerful moment for me. And 00:31:15:14 - 00:31:20:03 Unknown I I'm still, you know, a little shocked when I look at it. Excellent. 00:31:20:03 - 00:31:36:07 Unknown So the importance of having a community or tribe is everything. My community, as they call themselves, the entourage of presidents and VP's, is it's pretty significant. And I've furthered expanded my community now with my 00:31:36:07 - 00:31:41:01 Unknown the NAACP, with the great VP that's here with me. 00:31:41:14 - 00:32:03:21 Unknown Sean Allen and his support and everything like that and everything we're trying to do, fighting for those who are who are just as involved is so crucial. And having that community to rely on, we they carry the load with you. And that's the significance. You're not alone in the fight and in the early days, there was just myself and captain. 00:32:03:23 - 00:32:26:24 Unknown Were you. And we just had each other. And it was an uphill battle. And we're talking about almost five years building a lot of rejections, a lot of no's, and nobody believed. And you're trying to then there's Covid, which actually we try to parlay that into our favor because, again, it got us access to connecting with individuals. But that community was everything. 00:32:26:24 - 00:32:44:26 Unknown And building those relationships and having that success it was is phenomenal. And having a tribe, which is, you know, for some people in your community and tribe can be the same. For me. It's two different things, and my tribe is very cool. Those are my closest friends, like that's Captain Gill, that's, Shawn Allen and Doctor Eureka Day. 00:32:44:26 - 00:32:55:26 Unknown And those individuals have been friends, mentors, and they they see that side of me where my community, you know, even though we have those, those bonds. But that's 00:32:55:26 - 00:33:08:04 Unknown for the social reform, social justice. We're fighting this fight together no matter what. And we will support each other. And that's the benefit of the community and tribe. You need people who are going to support you through your journey. 00:33:08:07 - 00:33:34:14 Unknown And when you pick yourself up, it's sometimes you have to learn to pick yourself up. But it's always better when somebody is there to help you pick up and they pick you up. They give you, you know, a helping hand. They say, we got you. We support you. We believe in your vision. And even though they might have a different vision, but the goals align and they're like, hey, we're willing to put our vision with your vision and let's build something together and support each other through the whole process. 00:33:34:14 - 00:33:50:08 Unknown how I envision the future of education for justice involved individuals is greater access to education for justice involved for individuals, and not just at Santa Clara County Correctional Facility, but across the nation. 00:33:50:11 - 00:34:16:18 Unknown There's prisons, there's jails, there's there's formerly incarcerated who lack that education, that are justice involved. I believe that the college collaborative system can open doors, throughout the nation, throughout the country, be a model standard of what it is to change and give people to tear down and be a model, to tear down the oppressive barriers that when it comes to access to education and give these individuals an opportunity to be successful. 00:34:16:20 - 00:34:32:04 Unknown Now, the role that I want to play significant, and it's about building models across the nation, building opportunities, building collaboratives, understanding what it is to have a, to take a jail, a unique situation 00:34:32:04 - 00:34:45:11 Unknown where individuals are incarcerated and build something that's going to give them the opportunity to have access to education, then reentry community support, that wraparound support and hope for their success. 00:34:45:13 - 00:35:01:17 Unknown And when they reenter back into the community, they can have all these options and know that that, you know, their life is about to change and that they can take control and transform their lives. And that's what it's about for me. It's about building these opportunities and also setting the stage for government entities, 00:35:01:17 - 00:35:05:23 Unknown letting them see and letting the colleges and universities see if we work together as one. 00:35:05:23 - 00:35:29:03 Unknown We can actually, you know, really do a lot of amazing things for the justice involved and really kind of shaping behavior. We look at the research shows us that post-secondary education has the greatest success to recidivism. So this new model is just reflects that we had greater success in our numbers than even the post that that that was reported. 00:35:29:06 - 00:35:32:06 Unknown But if you put the model there, it works. 00:35:32:06 - 00:35:33:14 Unknown That belief 00:35:33:14 - 00:36:02:06 Unknown of getting from different levels and different backgrounds, different government to private sector, the community, from professors to teachers to facilitators to believe and in these individuals is just crucial to the overall outcome of giving them an opportunity to to not only reintegrate back into the society, but to give them that hope and opportunity to transform their lives. 00:36:02:08 - 00:36:28:04 Unknown And it all takes multiple levels, and that's my ultimate goal is to make of the self-sustaining one, which has been done, and where the college presidents have taken them up, and they run the college collaborative system. And now it's time to build it in other areas and different counties and different cities and build different, utilizing the same format and methodology to provide wraparound support as it grows and develops. 00:36:28:04 - 00:36:34:10 Unknown Because it is a national work, it is a national model. We and it deserves to be. 00:36:34:10 - 00:36:52:07 Unknown It deserves its chance to grow, because I think it's the best model for those who are just as involved, especially because we forget access to education, education is key, and that's why we all went to school. Otherwise we wouldn't have gone. It wasn't that everybody said, oh, you need to go to school. 00:36:52:07 - 00:37:24:21 Unknown At some point it clicks and we said, okay, I need to get education in order to make it in this society. And so giving them that access to education, those opportunities to grow and develop as individuals is so crucial, like one of the biggest things. And I know it's a little bit off topic, is that the reason I want them to always have access to the college because they never had access to college, to to go to a college where you can go to a football games, baseball games, you got student events, music, you got everything and you and you're there. 00:37:24:23 - 00:37:48:16 Unknown That itself is so overwhelming and so powerful for them because they're not only that, now they have a community of their own and they're making friends. These are people they never thought they would come across where some individuals had that experience, but a lot of them don't. And when they get that access, that opportunity to believe and they see it and they take that, that, that challenge, it's a beautiful thing to see. 00:37:48:16 - 00:38:07:06 Unknown And that's when I see the future of education and the future. Our case for justice involved is that them being not only just being a part of the community, but they're setting their own path and their being able to, you know, be embraced. And that's what community colleges and universities do. 00:38:07:06 - 00:38:16:09 Unknown In considering the CSU San Bernardino executive MBA program or any of their MBA programs, go for it. 00:38:16:11 - 00:38:18:02 Unknown That's my advice. Going back 00:38:18:02 - 00:38:26:05 Unknown your your your own. You'll put your own barriers up to hinder yourself. Remove those barriers. Go for it. It's only going to benefit you. 00:38:26:05 - 00:38:26:25 Unknown You know, 00:38:26:25 - 00:38:30:22 Unknown any kind of degree is challenging. An MBA 00:38:30:22 - 00:38:31:23 Unknown will change your life. 00:38:31:23 - 00:38:41:06 Unknown And getting it from an amazing school like CSU San Bernardino will open not only doors for you, but it will increase your network 00:38:41:06 - 00:38:47:04 Unknown It's all about increasing your network connections, people. And you want to be able to open up 00:38:47:04 - 00:38:59:22 Unknown your biases because we all have them. And you know, sometimes that fear, that bias or whatever you want to call it will hinder you. And I'm saying to you for anybody who wants to get a valuable education, 00:38:59:22 - 00:39:06:08 Unknown CSU San Bernardino Executive MBA program was marvelous for me, and I didn't know anything. 00:39:06:08 - 00:39:28:18 Unknown I came with a love of education. I knew a lot of stuff and I learned so much from those professors, and it was profound. And when I left there, I knew that I had a solid understanding or in my end, solid footing about what it is, you know, what business management truly works. So for those who are looking to see what they want to do next, take the challenge. 00:39:28:20 - 00:39:33:03 Unknown Don't live in fear. Go for it. It's only going to benefit you in the long run. 00:39:33:03 - 00:40:00:20 Unknown don't define success with awards or anything like that. And one in core, we've to be very honest, we, we won an Emmy for it, and we've won a lot of beautiful things for it. But success is watching those guys. When I go to the colleges and I see them walking around and, just to give you guys a story is like, I'm in the gym and 1 in 1 of the individuals was in the college collaborative, and now he goes to one of the college and he's in the gym with me. 00:40:00:22 - 00:40:19:26 Unknown So he literally is every time I'm left and he's there telling me all the great stuff he's doing, and I have to just take a step back just to just to see the smile. How proud he is that he's doing this and how proud his family is. Because now they go to the gym and they stop me. I mean, I can't never get no lift in. 00:40:19:28 - 00:40:55:08 Unknown I'm trying to lift. And they're they're telling me how great he is doing and they're so happy. But that's for me. That's what matters. And that's success is the success is measured through their success and watching them accomplish their goals. That's what gives me the most. That's what makes me the happiest and the most proud. And like, even for the watching the colleges, you know, change their perspective to, you know, really focus on this population and come together as one is unheard of to have colleges unite as a fist to fight for the betterment of justice involved individuals is phenomenal. 00:40:55:08 - 00:41:02:16 Unknown And that's the stuff that I love to watch them and their own individual changes as we come together, work as one. And that's the beauty of 00:41:02:16 - 00:41:16:21 Unknown and that's what I measure success. Watching the other individuals unite to fight for the these individuals who are marginalized, underrepresented, they lack that opportunity, and they're willing to fight to do anything to give them that opportunity. 00:41:16:21 - 00:41:18:26 Unknown And then to watch those individuals embrace it 00:41:18:26 - 00:41:37:05 Unknown and not give up on themselves, even though they're faced with multiple challenges and trauma. That's what I say. And even if they, you know, they fall, they go back into it and they have to do it all over again. To me, that success, you could have just came back in and done nothing, but you chose to try again. 00:41:37:07 - 00:41:49:02 Unknown And that I have respect for. That's how I look at it. And, you know, when I see them accomplish their goals and they're walking around the campus, there's nothing more phenomenal than that. 00:41:49:02 - 00:41:53:13 Unknown for high school students trying to find their path, their journey. 00:41:53:13 - 00:41:55:15 Unknown let me say this experience 00:41:55:15 - 00:42:04:22 Unknown will get you in the door, but education will get you the future you truly want.