Transcript- Episode 132: Tackling Systemic Racism in Education Head-On With Alysia Bell, President of UNITE-LA Episode 132

00:00:00 - Alysia Bell

If you are a business and employer listening and you want to support the young people in our community, opportunities to engage can really range to meet you where you're at. They can be designing industry focused work based learning models. It can be advocating for equitable education and workforce development outcomes. It could be just leveraging your experience, providing expert insights to help companies reimagine their strategies for attracting and retaining local talent.

 

00:00:32 - Christina Barsi

The workforce landscape is rapidly changing and educators and their institutions need to keep up. Preparing students before they enter the workforce to make our communities and businesses stronger is at the core of getting an education. But we need to understand how to change and adjust so that we can begin to project where things are headed before we even get there. So how do we begin to predict the future?

 

00:00:57 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Hi, I'm Salvatrice Cummo, Vice President of Economic and Workforce Development at Pasadena City College and host of this podcast.

 

00:01:05 - Christina Barsi

And I'm Christina Barsi, producer and co-host of this podcast.

 

00:01:09 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

And we are starting the conversation about the future of work. We'll explore topics like how education can partner with industry, how to be more equitable, and how to attain one of our highest goals, more internships and PCC Students in the workforce. We at Pasadena City College want to lead the charge in closing the gap between what our students are learning and what the demands of the workforce will be once they enter. This is a conversation that impacts all of us, you, the employers, the policymakers, the educational institutions and the community as a whole.

 

00:01:43 - Christina Barsi

We believe change happens when we work together, and it all starts with having a conversation. I'm Christina Barsi.

 

00:01:51 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

And I'm Salvatrice Cummo. And this is the Future of Work. Hi, welcome back to the Future of Work podcast. I am your host, Dr. Salvatrice Cummo. We are joined by Alysia Bell, who has served as President of UNITE LA for the past two years. Though she's been with the organization for over 13, her extensive career spans K through 12 districts, higher education institutions, economic development and workforce advocacy. With her unique perspective, she's helped bridge gaps between these sectors, working to ensure equitable economic mobility and educational access for all. Today, we'll dive deep into the critical in between spaces of education and workforce development, helping individuals navigate transitions such as moving from high school to college and into meaningful careers. Alysia, hi, how are you?

 

00:02:50 - Alysia Bell

I'm well. Thank you so much for having me. Salvatrice.

 

00:02:53 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Pleasure is all mine. Thank you so much. Let's kick off the conversation if you don't mind talking about your journey and what led you to UNITE LA with your extensive background, I would be happy to.

 

00:03:07 - Alysia Bell

And you know, before I start, I just want to express appreciation for the incredible partnership of Pasadena City College as well as the LA Regional Collaborative of Community Colleges. Our team at UNITE LA is really grateful to collaborate with you all. So I would say over the course of my career, I've had the pleasure of working both in the education space at LA Unified School District in their personnel selection branch, and in post secondary education. I served as an adjunct professor of Industrial Organizational Psychology at Pepperdine University and then also in business, in economic development specifically, and more broadly as an executive for multiple chambers of commerce. And so I really credit the arc of this experience for sparking my interest in the work that I do today with UNITEd la. So, for example, when I worked in economic development, in my experience meeting with site selectors and corporate executives when businesses were considering relocating or expanding, one of their first questions was always related to education, both for their own children who, you know, their families would be relocating with them, but also, of course, for the workforce pipeline. When I worked at my first Chamber of Commerce nearly two decades ago, I staffed that Chamber's Education and Workforce Development Committee. And I just fell in love with the intermediary work, those in-between spaces that you referenced, and I know we'll talk more about today. I would say that before I worked for UNITE LA, I had long admired the impact they had through their intermediary work. And I actually pursued UNITE LA for two years until they hired me. So, through attending various meetings and events, I had the pleasure of getting to know UNITE LA's founder, David Rattray, as well as our late sister, Dr. Alma Salazar, two incredible leaders in this work and wonderful mentors. And you know, to me and to so many in our community, I really pitched to them how my career to date had intersected with K12 higher ed in business and how I believe that would position me well to work with them at Unitala. So I joke that eventually I wore them, and they offered me a job. And that was back in 2011. So now, as you mentioned, 13 years with UNITE LA. About to start my 14th year with the organization. And I just feel so lucky to collaborate with so many partners across LA and beyond. UNITE LA's name, despite LA being in the name we started focused on LA City. We work regionally, and we actually work statewide and nationally as well, but entirely focused on equitable economic mobility through education and workforce development. And I just, I feel like I grow more passionate about the work each day, really inspired by our team. We're almost 50-strong. We should end the year with about 50 team members. We have extensive tenure on staff, so our leadership team, the average tenure is over 11 years. So, a really deep commitment. And then of course, our incredible board. We have about two dozen board members, currently chaired by LACCD Chancellor Rodriguez, and Dr. McKeeshan is a new member of our board. So just thrilled and inspired by partners, by our board, and by our staff.

 

00:06:23 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Excellent. Well, we certainly had the pleasure of working with you and your team for many, many years, even prior to us building the Los Angeles Regional Consortium. I personally know your work and the work of your team very intimately. And so I'm really excited about unpacking this conversation a little bit because there's so much that UNITE LA has been able to do for us as a single institution and now as an institution hosting the Los Angeles Regional Consortium. And so we definitely thank you. But I want to unpack the in between space that we keep talking about and what that looks like. Can you share a little bit about through your lens and the lens of your team, how you bridge those gaps of those in between spaces between education and workforce?

 

00:07:10 - Alysia Bell

My pleasure. This is the daily conversation. So I think of these critical in between spaces, which are of course foundational to the role of intermediary organizations such as UNITE LA. I think of them in a number of ways. So number one, cradle through career. Right? So along that full spectrum of early education, K12, post secondary education, and workforce development, both as it relates to the rising workforce as well as upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the incumbent workforce.

 

00:07:43 - Alysia Bell

So that's the first in-between spaces, cradle through career, the navigation between the different institutions and systems. Number two, through systems, policy, and programs. So, UNITE LA likes to describe itself as working in three domains: systems policy, advocacy, and programs. We say that we're a systems change organization that's enabled by the policy advocacy work that we do and informed by the programmatic work that we do.

 

00:08:12 - Alysia Bell

For example, oftentimes when we implement a program, honestly, I'd love to sit here and tell you that it goes 100% perfectly with no roadblocks, but we do run into challenges sometimes and honestly, we learn from that and that tends to give us an idea for a desired policy change or a needed budget investment at the state level. And so our programmatic team will take those lessons learned and then tag our policy team. So our policy team advocates. We do advocacy regionally, statewide and federally, but predominantly at the state level. Our team will advocate for policy changes, for budget investments once those are passed or Those investments are made then kind of tagged to our systems team.

 

00:08:57 - Alysia Bell

Our systems Change team helps to implement those and really has built trust up over the last quarter century, working in collaboration with partners across the region and helps to convene those trust tables where we can implement and make those systems changes and support our partners where needed. So our team refers to this interconnectedness of systems change and policy and programs as the multiplier effect.

 

00:09:25 - Alysia Bell

So that's our lingo that you would hear in all of our internal meetings is how are we multiplying the effect of policy programs in systems systems? And then I would just say number three, how I think about these kind of in between spaces is partnerships. So those in between spaces with partners, this is really UNITE LA's DNA. Taking just a moment to look backwards. UNITE LA was founded as an intermediary in 1998 by the City of Los Angeles, Louisiana Unified School District and LA Community College District. And these partners had envisioned a world where every young person would enjoy education and training opportunities leading to fulfilling high mobility careers of their choosing. So since then, and honestly, in partnership with you and with numerous partners throughout LA and beyond, UNITEd LA's impact has really resonated. So some of our systems work, we've collectively with partners, advanced a lot of shared goals. Through the LA Compact, which is now 16-years-old, we've advanced a number of Career Pathways programs in growing sectors such as healthcare and in tech.

 

00:10:32 - Alysia Bell

We've served over 300,000 youth through our Cash for College programming. And the Cash for College attendees have been associated with nearly a billion dollars of state financial aid. And then that third domain, in partnership with many in la, we've advocated for a lot of key policy priorities. So everything from the California Dream act to the Career Pathways Trust Fund and from expanding paid family leave to CAL Grant modernization. So exploring those in between spaces with part partners and how we expand on that, moving to the future, we have expanded the partnerships in our systems change work through countywide partners.

 

00:11:14 - Alysia Bell

So we're the proud convener of the LA Regional K16 Collaborative in partnership with you all. And then we've also really deepened diverse business engagement in our cradle through career policy agenda. We now have partnerships with over 30 business organizations throughout LA and throughout the state to really bring that diverse business voice to a lot of these issues. We're building pathways now not only in healthcare and in tech, but also really focused on an inclusive clean tech workforce in Los Angeles.

 

00:11:45 - Alysia Bell

And this is really at the height of the clean energy transformation. And then finally we're advancing Numerous strategic partnerships. Again, back to that being UNITE LA's DNA. Everything we do is in partnership with others and some of these strategic partnerships support digital equity, early care and education, and of course broadly equitable economic mobility. So just really the moral of UNITE LA story is that, you know, those in between spaces, everything we've been able to accomplish has been done collaboratively. And so really looking forward to continued and expanded partnerships. Moving forward.

 

00:12:20 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Thank you. Sounds like to me there's several layers to those in between spaces, but one particularly is that transition from high school to college and or college to the workforce. Can we spend a little bit of time on some of the challenges you see in that transition and then just maybe share how the team has developed strategies in addressing those challenges for that transition period?

 

00:12:45 - Alysia Bell

Yeah, thank you for that question. That actually allows me to share one of the three major growth areas for UNITE LA that's been identified in our recent strategic plan, which is really the evolution of our systems change work to grow and expand at the regional level. So again, as the proud convener of this K16 regional collaborative, our systems team collaborates with dozens of partners countywide to co create and grow streamline pathways for students from historically marginalized communities in key sectors. So in healthcare, computing and engineering. And speaking of the transition, as you asked about, you know, between high school and college and or from college to the workforce. So the K16 collaborative's regional goals are to increase college enrollment and persistence, to eliminate racial and gender enrollment disparities in these targeted pathways and then also to increase the percentage of students of color who are employed in their field of study. And the regional objectives are centered on those in between spaces that we talked about. So those include those transition points. So between high school and community college, expanding and enhancing dual enrollment offerings to really support Those transitions from K12 into post secondary education. The second objective is around enhancing transfer pathways. So really supporting those transitions if you are at a two year college and want to transfer to a four year institution. And then the third objective is yet another transition point from education into the workforce. So that's around expanding work based learning opportunities to really support those transitions into the workforce. And I'll just say a little something about the inclusive nature of those strategies. The LA Regional K16 collaborative leverages recommendations from California's Recover with Equity plan which came out a few years ago, I want to say in 2021. And these inclusive strategies are specifically aiming to retain students through inclusive supports. Number two is to provide high tech, high touch advising. Number three is to support college prep and early credit. And then number four, important to everyone, improving college affordability. And then I will just say that all of these objectives, these strategies, the expected impact includes, among other things, greater connectivity between these segments and systems of education and then also greater alignment of pathways to specified career fields. Again really focusing on those career opportunities that are high mobility in growing sectors. So as you may have seen UNITE LA evolve over the last two or three years, definitely our systems change team has grown to support this work and really navigate those in between spaces alongside partners.

 

00:15:41 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Would you say there's a specific mindset in approaching this work and if so, what would it be and how does it really shape how you lead, how programs are developed, the collaboration, the partnership, everything in between. So just kind of want to spend a little bit of time on your mindset specifically and engaging in this work because it's heavy and it's fluid and there's a ton of moving parts.

 

00:16:08 - Alysia Bell

Yeah, I mean, I want to give so much credit to UNITE LA's founding CEO, who retired two years ago, David Rattray. He was a master at encouraging all of us to frame challenges as opportunities and always encouraged us to rewrite our narratives using asset-based language.

 

00:16:34 - Alysia Bell

And we have found that that really puts us in a good frame of mind to be solutions oriented as we are working in community and with partners to address barriers. So let me give a specific example to demonstrate that. Let's talk internships for example. So some data. We see data that shows how internships can positively impact individual outcomes in the labor market following graduation. A recent report from Strada Education foundation shows that college students who complete a paid internship during undergrad have higher paying jobs after graduation, even when you account for differences in pay based on whether it be field of study, gender, race, ethnicity.

 

00:17:22 - Alysia Bell

And so while many students recognize the benefits of internships, a challenge is that about 70% of first year students plan to complete an internship during college and less than half of students actually find and complete an internship and less than a quarter secure a paid internship. And so it's a challenge, right? But it presents UNITE LA with an opportunity to reframe it as an opportunity to collaborate with numerous systems, partners, institutions and community members to really address these barriers to these high mobility careers.

 

00:17:58 - Alysia Bell

So as an intermediary, UNITE LA has the pleasure of facilitating connections between employers and post secondary institutions and other training programs to provide work based learning opportunities to our local talent here in la. I'm happy to share a couple of examples of employers in the high growth sectors of healthcare, tech and cleantech who are really successfully engaging. So in the tech sector, Snap offers an academy. Accenture has a summer internship and apprenticeship program in healthcare, Cedars Sinai offers an internship program in cleantech. One of our partners, Veolia, they have hired two community college interns for an internship that honestly was originally designed specifically for four year students. And again, a challenge as an opportunity. Right. So in our role as an intermediary, UNITE LA advocated for the company to consider scholars from our LA regional Cleantech Career Academy.

 

00:18:55 - Alysia Bell

They did. Our candidates applied and interviewed and were hired in 2023. And the two who were hired, they both remain employed a year after their 2023 summer internship placement. And one was advanced to an engineering intern. And they both work part time while continuing their education. Another example, West Basin, they hired one of our cleantech Academy graduates, another community college student for a very competitive nine month internship program.

 

00:19:23 - Alysia Bell

And so these are just a couple of the many, many employers who are so engaged and wonderful. But you know, we also try to track with trends and so what are some of those best practices or promising practices that we see with those employers? And I would say a few of the things we notice that they have in common. They have leadership that's really committed to investing resources. They have dedicated staff to engage with community partners in the recruitment of talent. They have specific programming that's funded and facilitated by their organization to cultivate local talent pipelines that meet their workforce needs. They have dedicated staff to support program implementation, a community benefits plan aligned with leadership's vision and commitment to hiring local talent, including community college students. And then I would just say a focused talent development plan that includes a focus on hiring local talent. And we see these employers supporting community career and job fairs in partnership with community colleges and CBOs. So we love coordinating and planning community hiring events with them. And we just have numerous quotes. If we have time later, we have amazing quotes from employers as well as several quotes from community college students themselves.

 

00:20:37 - Alysia Bell

So just have a swath of beautiful letters and emails and quotes from surveys and evaluations that we do where we see a number of community college students who are earning $21 an hour, $26 an hour, getting real hands on experience and really just getting access exposure. So it definitely is what keeps us going day to day is hearing from both the talent pipeline, the students, the young adults that we work with, as well as the employers saying, you know, how rewarding these experiences have been.

 

00:21:12 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Yes, I mean we're happy to share those in any way possible and we can certainly chat offline on how we can Highlight and share those success stories and we may be able to also enter some into the show notes. Yeah, if you have some testimonials, that'd be really great. Alysia, I want to shift gears here just a little bit. Still talking about education and workforce, but I want to talk about the importance of anti racism in our work. I'm going to say our work because we're in this together. What have you seen, or how does I should say UNITE LA actively address systemic racism within education and workforce? What have you seen and how do you address it?

 

00:21:56 - Alysia Bell

Thank you. Incredibly important and foundational question. And again, I would say part of UNITE LA's DNA, UNITE LA in fact was founded on dismantling inequities. And it's an ongoing commitment that certainly does not have an end point. Our staff continue their commitment to learn and to refine both individual and organizational efforts. So I would say we started using bolder language in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd and integrated clear commitments to anti racism into our language into our goals. We budgeted and hired consultants to work with an internal anti racism workgroup that we launched. So we have two incredible senior team members who co lead our anti racism work group. Bridget Netter is our Senior Vice President of Programs. Dr. Lisa Catanzarite is our Vice President of Research and Evaluation. And they have co-led this anti racism work group internally since mid-2020. And this work group is dedicated to advancing UNITEdLA's race equity initiatives, working with staff, bringing in experts and consultants in the field to both increase and advance the team's shared knowledge and understanding of anti racism, with a specific focus on anti black racism. We have had a number of consultants come in and train our staff on a number of things, including, for example, microaggressions. We brought in an amazing consulting group, Social good solutions, in 2022. They came in and they led our staff through a number of workshops over the course of a year. In addition to the microaggressions, they held some workshops on behaviors that harm, behaviors that heal, and really helped us think about operationalizing racial equity and accountability. Our research and evaluation team conducted staff surveys following each session and really leveraged the feedback to inform future sessions. And we also worked with social good solutions to identify a number of very clear, specific priorities. Anti racism priorities. We found ourselves in the position where we were working with an anti racism consultant developing these priorities, while at the same time we were working with a consulting firm to develop our new strategic plan. And we made a very concerted effort to ensure that we did not develop these in silos. We did not create a strategic plan and then take a DEI lens to it. No. We made sure that those anti racism priorities that UNITE LA established with the support of a consultant, we made sure that those were foundational in our new strategic plan. And those are both internal and external. So those are, as you think about our mission based work, the external work, if you will, but the mission based work, you look at the systems change work, you look at the policies that we advocate for, you look at our programmatic work and who those scholars are that are involved in our programs. But you also look internally and you look at our HR and our operations. And so we have those anti racism priorities foundational to our strategic plan. And I'm just so proud of the team for their commitment to not only advancing our work and our mission, but also continually growing individually in our equity and our anti racism work.

 

00:25:48 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Thank you. It led me to think about my experiences with UNITE LA. And UNITE LA has always, in my experience, has been about action around intentions, action around words, action around the realities of what we face in the workforce and education, that intersection. This is a beautiful example of how UNITE LA approached our realities here and adjusted, not only adjusted within the organization but also adjusted how you approach future programming, how you approach our community, specifically our partners, and addressing the importance of anti racism across our system and all the work that we do. It's. I can't say enough about UNITE LA, honestly, and I'm speaking from my truth here. Alysia. It's always been such an amazing pleasure to watch UNITE LA excel in so many areas. And the fact that UNITE LA has never over promised and under delivered, it's been my experience that means so much.

 

00:26:57 - Alysia Bell

Thank you.

 

00:26:57 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Yeah, absolutely. It needs to be said, and I think that you and the organization have always come to the table with how can we serve, how can we be better, how can we be of service to our community, our new talent, our students, our current workforce, et cetera? So I just wanted to give a heartfelt thank you to that because that was just a really good example of how the organization showed up. And I really appreciate that. We've talked a lot today about the in between spaces, about the work of UNITE LA framework, et cetera. I want to kind of take us into the future a little bit. In your view, what does the future of work look like, especially for industries and communities in la, and how do we, you and I and others in the space, ensure that education and workforce development keep pace with the job market?

 

00:27:54 - Alysia Bell

My gut reaction is that collaboration continues to be key. We are at such an historic moment in California to for example expand career integration into our education and workforce systems with the significant expansion of work based learning opportunities, including internships which I know we talked about earlier, apprenticeships for students throughout the county to really better prepare them for these good jobs, these good careers throughout our region. I think about sabatrise the new state funding opportunities such as the Golden State pathways program, the 500 million coming down from the state to regions around California, the K16 Regional Collaborative Initiative, the formerly served now California Jobs first program as well as established programs such as Strong Workforce programs. These all provide a unique opportunity to enable this collaboration between and within the systems to both build institutional and relational infrastructure but also to develop research and standards around learning aligned pathways to identify and embed a gold standard if you will of work based learning experiences into education pathways. Ensuring every young person has the career exposure and the paid, unpaid, paid work experiences to set them up for high quality careers. And with this potential for high mobility within that career right regional coordination, sharing of best practices, promising practices models, partnering with employers for high quality work based learning experiences will just continue to bolster that systemic coordinated programming at scale to really maximize the impact that I feel like we are all aligned, we all want that equitable economic mobility for our rising workforce and for our residents.

 

00:29:56 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Do you think that there's key elements to that partnership between academia and industry and if so, what might those be for you?

 

00:30:04 - Alysia Bell

Sure. So you know regarding educational institutions, UNITE LA's work helps align business with educational institutions and certainly community colleges with student needs to really make sure the students are graduating workforce ready. So I'm thinking Salvatrice actually about UNITEd LA's recent LA Regional consortium, the Student Career Interest Survey that we collaborated on. And looking at the survey's results I think there was 650 plus students who participated across LA's 19 community colleges with the goal of using those to align curriculum and workforce training. We talked about the high mobility careers and the growing sectors but also to align with students interests and needs. We want people to have these careers that they're passionate about. I'm thinking about a few of the summary findings regarding career goals. We saw that it was 59% of respondents aim to increase their professional experience and training and regarding specific careers. A substantial number of respondents are interested in pursuing careers in technology fields for example, so cybersecurity data science, as well as we talked healthcare. So in allied health professions there were 18% who expressed interest in nursing. So thinking about those from the education and business collaborating. And you know, where is the overlap of the Venn diagram with student interest, with high mobility career options, and with growing industries? I would say as it relates to employers. I know we spoke earlier about some of the elements, meaningful state investments that support these kind of partnerships. And I'll add that from a business engagement perspective, we've seen opportunities for these partnerships where we can provide support. So for example, connection to talent from one of our programs or technical assistance to support employers in delivering internships and work-based learning. We've had the pleasure of working with so many businesses with shared values and a commitment to equitable economic mobility. And I just. It would be a disservice if I didn't bring up one of the superstars in our community. UNITE LA is so proud to partner with Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser's work-based learning programs are a testament to the company's commitment to inclusivity and to equal opportunity. Their summer internship program, for example, it was developed primarily to ensure students from underrepresented communities gain access to just really invaluable workplace experience in the healthcare field. And the experience provides students with insights and skills that are often inaccessible to those without industry connections. Kaiser's vision is to build a workforce that reflects the diverse communities they serve. These opportunities really provide early exposure. There's been a lot of success inspiring people to continue their journey within the organization. And so we just know of numerous former interns who have gone on to secure employment with Kaiser Permanente. So, so much opportunity specifically for education and employers, especially when you pair that with state investments and also, you know, investments from the philanthropic community. So many opportunities to continue this collaboration that is really critical for the future of work in our region.

 

00:33:31 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Absolutely. I couldn't underscore that any more than you just did. I mean, it's truly critical, that connectivity piece and the collaboration piece and our partnerships critical to this work. If we're truly invested in advancing the impact, advancing access, it's important, it's important that we do more collaborations between private, public and nonprofit. It really is. It really is for our listener. Now we're kind of, you know, heading into the sunset of the conversation. Just for today doesn't mean forever. You and I, I'm sure we'll connect different ways, hopefully offline. But I wanted to ask you, what is one key takeaway that you would like our listener to walk away from this conversation?

 

00:34:15 - Alysia Bell

Thank you for that. You know, as succinctly as possible, I will try to say, as the state and as our region, you know, as we are all aligned on looking to expand high quality work based learning for young people. I would say we're always looking to work with companies that are true champions of work based learning, particularly through innovative internship programs for high school students, for community college students, paid internship programs. We support employers in championing opportunities for young people through really a wide range of engagement initiatives. So if you are a business and employer listening and you want to support the young people in our community, opportunities to engage can really range to meet you where you're at. They can be designing industry focused work based learning models. It can be advocating for equitable education and workforce development outcomes. It could be just leveraging your experience, providing expert insights to help companies reimagine their strategies for attracting and retaining local talent. And so just want to continue to expand our partnerships again as we all work to equip our incumbent workforce, who wants upskilling, reskilling and then also the rising workforce, including our community college students, would love to continue to partner with an expanding circle of businesses and employers.

 

00:35:44 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Excellent. Thank you. And if they wanted to connect with you, what's the best way that they connect with you?

 

00:35:50 - Alysia Bell

Absolutely. So our entire staff, which again should be 50 strong by the end of this calendar year. Excellent.

 

00:35:57 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Congrats.

 

00:35:58 - Alysia Bell

Yes. So we're thrilled. We're thrilled. It's a wonderful momentum taking place again alongside you and all of our partners in LA. Our entire staff, including myself, are bios, our pictures, our emails are all on the website and I will also say our board of directors if you want to learn more about us. We're I know I mentioned Chancellor Rodriguez and Dr. McKeean. We have our entire board is absolutely incredible and all of their headshots and bios are also linked on our website. You can see business engagement opportunities, programmatic opportunities, a calendar of events, newsletters, research reports. You can find that all on our website and all of our contact information, including mine. So please do reach out, but it's UNITEla.com Excellent.

 

00:36:46 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

Thank you so much. Thank you very, very much. This lovely conversation. So much gratitude coming your way. I honestly just heartfelt gratitude for you and your team. Thanks again and I look forward to connecting further with you.

 

00:37:00 - Alysia Bell

Savagery. Thank you to you and your team as well.

 

00:37:05 - Dr. Salvatrice Cummo

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