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Blakely Lockhart

Blakely Lockhart

PhD candidate in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health at Virginia Tech; COVES Policy Fellow studying maternal and infant health.

Jun 24, 2026

7:28
And, uh, yeah, I mean, I don't know if you wanna pick up on that.
7:31
Yeah.
7:31
Yeah, I can share 'cause I think, um, once again, once I shared my background in our initial meeting, it was like, ah, everything clicked of why we were [laughs] partnered together as, as mentor-mentee.
7:45
So, um, I, um, did my undergrad at Christopher Newport University, and I studied neuroscience and leadership.
7:54
And while I was there, I had reactivated the NAACP chapter on my campus and, um, my senior year, and it was in the wake of George Floyd's murder, and that launched me into a world of activism that I had previously not known.
8:10
I mean, I've always been a little activist.
8:12
Uh, but that was a different scale with media and, uh, policies, um, for our university as well as the community.

18 MINS LATER

25:59
But not everybody I mentor is like that, you know?

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