 Hi, my name is Jabari Evans. I'm assistant professor of race and media at the University of South Carolina. Found that when I started entering my early 30s, I was doing a lot of work with youth, mentorship work, as well as community activism. And that work led me to pursuing grants for my own not-for-profit and really trying to see solutions and helping Black youth utilize their creativity in ways that can change their life trajectories, whether that's financially or just making them better people. Well, I think the greatest thing about what I study is that I get to always put a little bit of me into work that I do. And I think when you study race as a Black person, for me as a Black man, you're able to see not only that your work is impactful to society at large, but I'm able to see how my work is impactful for those who are my friends, who are my family and my own children. Communication has needed this level of diversity and inclusivity since I was an undergrad. And I think when I was an undergrad, I wanted a professor like myself. And so I'm really just trying to be the change that I wanted to see. And I think that's kind of the necessary void that needed to be filled. And so I kind of have fashioned myself into that space.