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Akello Stone

Director

Jun 5, 2026

5:45
And Akello, how does that resonate with your experience teaching in community colleges and just a little bit about your background of becoming an educator?
5:55
I had thought about my whole trajectory going, being a first generation college student in my family, starting out at a community college and then dropping down to halftime in the second semester because I was working and then dropping out for an entire year And just saying, you know, college was not for me.
6:16
I was not supported in college.
6:18
And then somehow, through some miracle, I ended back up in a four-year public institution, completed my master's, and then moved to the South, Atlanta, and then completed a master's degree at another public institution.
6:37
I felt more comfortable in a public institution.
6:39
When I was an undergrad, I worked for programs that were working with Detroit high school students, Flint high school students, to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented students in higher education.
6:54
And I worked for Talent Search and Upward Bound and those type of programs.

25 MINS LATER

31:30
I mean, Akello, do you see a different level in student loan debt with your students? I mean, I guess they'd have to tell you personally, maybe you don't get a sense of their debt burden over time if that's increased.

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