< Previous28 | TALK MAGAZINE • WINTER 2019COLLEGE NEWS continued from page 7CHATHAM When it came time to start thinking about college, Young’s high school guidance counselor suggested Chatham. “It wasn’t too far from home; I could pursue my interests in social justice, and the school was small enough that I wouldn’t have to compete with hun-dreds of people just to get a meeting with someone,” she says. Young credits Professor Anissa Wardi’s Race and Representation class with opening her eyes. “For the first time, I had words to put to my experiences and feelings,” she says. Young got involved with the Black Student Union; became a Resident Assistant for the International Liv-ing and Learning Community; par-ticipated in Women of the World Leadership retreats; and studied abroad in Gambia (with best friends Suad Yusuf ’14 and Annia Aleman ’13), where she volunteered with a feminist non-government organi-zation NGO called the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP). After graduating with a double major in cultural studies with an Af-rican American concentration, and international studies with an Africa concentration, Young spent a year working for the Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience, and then completed the prestigious and rigorous Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs—nine months of “using the city as a classroom”, switching out placements in non-profit organi-zations every eight weeks. “It really prepared me to do the work I’m doing now. It also taught me to work long hours,” she laughs. After Coro, she worked with the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, helping to connect youth to em-ployment opportunities. “I realized that I have a calling to serve through education and working with youth,” Young says. “Education has the power to change the trajectory of a family in just one generation, and I always find myself coming back to it. I love helping young people develop the confidence and skills to take them to new places.” “I had been working part-time at Ellis for a year and a half as a diver-sity and inclusion coordinator, and I realized that there’s so much more work to be done there. I remembered my negotiation classes, trainings we had, being told to fight for our worth. So I advocated to become full-time at Ellis, to receive promotion to director of diversity and inclusion, and a higher salary. And I received it!” At Ellis, Young makes it a point to collaborate with other schools, including Westinghouse High School, with whose students Ellis students collaborated on a podcast (yet to be aired). The podcast focused on the students’ lived experiences, and perceptions of how the city views them based on what school they go to, and what they would like to tell adults if they could. One of the initiatives of which Young is most proud is Ellis’s Culture Jam, a daylong student-led diversity summit that won a Racial Justice Award from the YWCA. This year, students came from as far away as Maine and Philadelphia—as well as from various neigh-borhoods in Pittsburgh—to run workshops and give presentations. “Culture Jam used to be just Ellis students giving presentations,” says Young. “It was still valuable, but it wasn’t equitable, so we invited students from all over to attend and present, and not just present, but to share their stories through dance, film, or art. There are so many stories that don’t get presented because they don’t fit in the dominant narrative.” Young says that she got a little pushback because of those changes, because there’s a strong sense of tradition. “But I wanted to move the needle a little bit,” she says, “so we can get closer to where we say we want to be.” I ask Young what it’s like going from working with children from underserved communities to stu-dents at a private school like Ellis. “I always say that regardless of where I work, I am in the space-disruptor and space-expansion business,” she says. “At the end of the day, regardless of resources and funding, kids want to aim for the stars, and I’m here to help them do that. I challenge students to think outside of the ‘Ellis bubble’, to think about their own personal narratives, how they fit in the world outside, and how they can leverage what they have to call attention to issues that they care about.” In Spring 2018, Young returned to Chatham to give the keynote address at the Multicultural Stu-dent Graduation Celebration. “I was overjoyed to see that Chatham students had the Kente Cross stoles,” she says, referring to traditional cer-emonial items of clothing of African origin. “When I graduated, I had to borrow one from a friend at Pitt and cover up the name of the univer-sity!” she laughs. “Dr. Finegold is really stepping to the plate—I was so thrilled to see the president there. All of us alumnae who attended. We were just so proud that it was happening, and that the students had that space and that time to shine.”until they get themselves in lots of trouble. “And then they’re like ‘I really need some help; how can I get this back on track?’” In his book Running Your Small Business Like A Pro, he shares the best ways to create structure and a path to go from where they are, to creating a sustainable business that can run without them, which most small businesses never achieve. “Over the past five years I had been working on it and it basically out-lined the methodology I used to help people for coaching and consulting so I could give them an insight and give it at an affordable price because it’s like 10 hours of coaching from me for the price of a book.” Upon writing his book, Frazier decided to break up the book into two halves. “The first half of my book is called What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You. I go through a lot of the key things that you need to know as an entrepreneur. For instance, your number one job is to market and sell. Most entrepreneurs, even though they have been in business, they don’t know that’s their number one job.” Frazier explains that many of his clients admit that they didn’t start their own business do sales, but that’s their job and if they don’t sell enough, they don’t have a business. The second half of the book is titled: This is how you do it! Which focuses on strategies to continue running a small business with peak efficiency. As for Frazier’s business plans, he says he intends to continue helping neophyte business owners achieve the American dream while continu-ing his budding career as an author and publisher. “As a small business, you must pick your niche, so my goal is to be the best coach, consultant, trainer possible for folks and to write more books going into more detail about what I have in the main book. My goal is to sort of put together the small business for dummies collection.”Small Business Like A Pro continued from page 23Gary Watson, 52 Years of Celebrity Photographic HistoryFlash and Flare:continued from page 27book that he is working on is titled The Man With a Thousand Faces. It will include incredible stories like how he posed as an elevator oper-ator to meet Sophia Loren or how he and his wife successfully snuck into the 1978 Oscars and ended up holding Charlton Heston’s Academy Award. Stories of those who were friends like James Brown, Eddie Murphy and Sammy Davis Jr. Watson believes he is the ulti-mate fan and dreams of one day accepting an academy award on behalf of all fans. “In April of this year will be my 52nd year and have become a collector. 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