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mhm,

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mm hmm. Yeah. Well, when I arrived at
Barrett in the fall of 2003, it was

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hard to be there and not be acquainted
with Courtney. She had come to

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Arizona state thinking of being a
broadcast journalism major. And during

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her freshman year, she had taken a
trip to Mexico and seen some poverty

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stricken areas that made her feel she
had to work to remedy poverty and

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the medical and educational
implications of it all over the world,

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Courtney had this interesting idea of
taking an experience she had had as

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a young student to take that idea to
high school students in as many

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schools as she could provide All over
the country. And then she went on

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from there. After she graduated in
2005, she developed a new global

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citizens, 2, 14 states, 30 countries.
Over 40,000 high school students all

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over the world and raised a million
dollars in endowment for. That led me

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to running that organization for a
number of years and then transitioning

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, recognizing that there were other
entrepreneurs that had dreams of

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making the world a better place. And
that led me to launch seed spot, a

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nonprofit incubator, supporting the
dreams of really passionate social

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entrepreneurs that are committed to
solving societal problems, Kourtney's

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energy, her vitality, her sense of uh,
the future and uh, of the uh,

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opportunities that she and people like
her and her generation have. It

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just exemplifies everything I believe
that we stand for at a shoe and that

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she exemplifies perfectly. Doctor
Laddie core was a mentor that really

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guided me coming out of a shoe, I was
a senior with a dream of starting a

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nonprofit organization and it was
Laddie and his network and the folks

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that he was able to connect me to that
were really instrumental in helping

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me pursue my dream of launching a
nonprofit organization. People are her

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cause it's the individual. It's a
funny thing, but it's a subtle shift

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that makes her different than anyone
else that you can meet. It makes her

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aligned with you instead of aligned
with her own agenda. I'm a firm

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believer that everyone has a seed of
an idea and a dream. And what I

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questioned in starting seed spot was
really how and where do you go to

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launch those dreams into the world?
And so I wake up every morning

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thinking about what dreams might be
lost if a place like seed spot didn't

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exist and what dreams can we help
bring into the world. Courtney

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understands the future will be in
those who innovate who look beyond the

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immediate uh, terrain and prepare
themselves to function effectively in it.

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Courtney's work is always all about
helping people. In fact, the way I

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think of Courtney is that she's a
person who helps people who want to help

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people the mentorship that I received
at issue the leadership here in the

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work, Michael Crowe has been
phenomenal. And I think from a game changing

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standpoint issue has really put itself
on the map and I'm really proud to

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be an alum of this university and the
work that it's doing in the world.

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And when I think that I had the
opportunity for her to support me for a

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little bit and what she's done for me
in my life and where I am because of

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just knowing her, it's very emotional
for me. I'm incredibly grateful that

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, you know, that she stood behind me
and she's still there, rooting me on.

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 That's that's just that's Courtney.