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Providing Advantage and Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youths
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up, sees inner-city youths as critical components of the US economy and competitiveness. In this video, he explains the challenge and the opportunities.
“Many people in this country perceive the individuals who live in the housing projects as deficits or liabilities. They perceive the challenges they’d face as adversities that weaken them,” he says.
“My perception, having now served over a decade and 5,000 young people, is: one, they are assets; two, they are critical components of our US economic engine and the adversity they have faced makes them stronger and more resilient as an employee then many folks who have never faced any type of adversity in their lives.
“So I think what our country needs to do is really embrace the fact that, if we are going to have a globally competitive country, we have to engage every one of our citizens as being part of a knowledge-based economy.”
(Published April 2014)
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