Chicago Insight May 24th 2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Communities. Happy Memorial Day weekend. We begin this morning with
Essentials for Democracy, equity and voter Participation. We'll learn about
a special event sponsored by Equity and Transformation in Chicago
and the status of the Jesse L. Jackson Senior Young
Voter Empowerment Law. And we'll close out our talks learning
about Underrepresented at the Top, a project designed to increase

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people of color in the C suites. But first up,
a case for reparations. Reparations for the ravages of slavery
isn't nothing new. In fact, there was the law of
the United States during the reconstruction period. On Saturday May thirty,
twenty twenty six, at eleven am, EAT Chicago otherwise known
as Equity and Transformation and the Movement repart for Black Lives,

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will convene the Big Payback Assembly at All Space in Chicago.
It's designed to bring community together to define demand and
build comprehensive reparations for Black Americans. And joining us this
morning to discuss the details of the event is Richard Wallace.
Here's the co founder and the executive director of Equity

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and Transformation otherwise known as EAT Chicago. Richard, how are.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
You doing good? I'm feeling good this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
We finally got some good weather in Chicago, so looking
forward to getting out in the sun today.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, and I'm glad. But you're hoping that people, no
matter what the weather is, come out for this eat
Chicago Equity and Transportation Big Payback. Talk to me about that.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, thank you for lifting up the Big Payback Assembly.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So the Big Payback Assembly will be held on Saturday,
May thirtieth at eleven am at Alt Space here at
all Chicago's West Side. Again, I'm the executive director of
Equity and Transformation. The People's Movement Assembly is a model
that came out of Jackson, Mississippi. Essentially, it's an opportunity

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to not have like a panel discussion where there's a
bunch of experts on the panel. It's an opportunity for
the community to be represented as the experts and bring
them into a conversation around how we how we articulate
a vision for reparations from the city of Chicago.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
What does a healed Chicago look like is the central premise.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
And and that means like everybody from the youth to
the elders get opportunity to chime in on the visioning
of a healed Chicago, and we believe that the framework
to make that possible is reparations.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Reparations had gained so much momentum, especially just a few
years ago. In fact, the city of Evanston enacted legislation
decide to provide reparations for residents of that city. But now,
at least in the federal level, under the current administration,
it's considered a dirty word. How do you cleanse that

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particular current perception, at least at the federal level.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, I mean, well, I think born is that you know,
the UN has defined reparations, and you know, the African
Americans are one of the few groups that happened actually
received reparations. You know, it wasn't a it wasn't what
it didn't fall on bad ears when the Japanese received
reparations historically, right, and so.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
For the French receives for almost enslaving people.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
In eight Yes, yes, reparations isn't a new concept internationally,
it's not a new concept.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I think it's unfortunate that we haven't.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
But I think that the pathway forward in the United
States U is to actually satisfy the case right or
actualize the case for reparations in the United States, and
I think until we do that in a real way,
you know, all equity provisions are on a faulty foundation.
We have to actually make the case for reparations and

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then all equity measures that will be built upon that
will actually be long lasting in my opinion, but the
case reparations has to be actualized in the US.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So talk specifically about this introduction, if you will, to
the work that you're doing that's taking place at All Space,
which is located at fifty six forty five was cocorin place,
Talk about what they're going to experience beginning at eleven
am on Saturday, May thirtieth.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, beginning eleven am. I mean, so we'll have well,
of course, we'll have some food. The name of our
organization is EAT, so we're gonna make sure that people
are fed and well fed.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
But the program.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Essentially is not going to be kind of like a
you know, a forum of sources where it's just people
sharing information to the audience. It's really going to be
an interactive opportunity for residents throughout the state of Illinois
because there'll be folks that'll be there from both Chicago
and places like Joliet, Illinois to have a robust discussion,
interactive discussion around the five pillars of reparations For folks

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that don't know what those five pillars are, the un
DEFINE has defined reparations under these five pillars.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
It is one rehabilitation, So.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
What does it look like for our community to be
fully rehabilitated to its rest of the time, and that
essentially is a commitment to restore communities to the condition
they were in before the harm occurred. Three is compensation,
So what does compensation actually look like, what would it
what would be enough? Right as it relates to compensating

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the survivors for is guarantee and non repetition. I think
that's the most important piece and this is why I
feel like this is one of the most important conversations
we need to have in our community. Is how do
we ensure that whatever harm occurred doesn't replicate itself in
the future. How do we close the door on all
the loopholes everything from black codes, the gymicro laws, to
redlining to of course chattel slavery, but also mass incarceration. Right,

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how do we ensure that these systems don't appear in future?
Generations in different in different ways. And lastly, it is satisfaction, right,
so opportunity for community residents to talk about what actually
will they be satisfied, what makes them satisfied with the
you know, the outcome of the other or pillars, and
so that is really going to be the invitation, and

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each pillar will be held by a different facilitator and
will have breakout groups and folks will be doing everything
from like actually going through a healing process, like actually
understanding their body, like what does it mean for my
spirit to be settled?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Right? What does it actually mean to be calm, to
not experience.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know, I think the not living the trauma that
we've experienced, and then having folks do some interactive like
artwork with Komba Link. So we have some brilliant partners
that are going to come in to help facilitate these
discussions and not make them you know, the kind of
the standard everyday conversation, but make it interactive in different ways.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
How do you get beyond this sense of apathy that exists,
particularly in terms of black folks that feel as though
it's going to happen anyway, the inevitability of declining reparations
so why should I even bother.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah and participating.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, I mean I think, I mean, I think we
have to continue to do the work in spite of right,
I think there's there If our ancestors just assumed that
there would never be a day where they weren't and
changing in bondage and slavery and gave up on the
idea of freedom, where would we be today?

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I think it was.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
It's important for it's important for us in this moment
to remember who we are, who we came from. You know,
the Elders, the Harriets, right, the you know, the the Frederick's,
the the the the Dubois, the you know, the Christmas addicts,
that all.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Of it just as an aside there you mentioned du Bois.
But the reality there is a phenomenal documentary in terms
of a two hour documentary on PBS right now and
American Masters that deals with the life of the W. E. B.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Du Boys.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
So I just had to put that out there because
I trying to feed as much information as possible.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Right, plug it in like anybody that hasn't read up
on Dubar, But he was a brilliant theorist and one
of the pieces that I consistently, you know, lift up
to our team is.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
The double conscience business piece.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
And I think even as you think about how UH
think about current times and uh, there's so much, so
much to be said about how our youth are living
within that that double consciousness today. And so again we
want the youth to come out to the Big Payback
People's Assembly because their their voice is going to be
central in that in that vision of a healed Chicago,

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Like what do they actually need in order to feel
hold right? And you know, we can make assumptions, but
I'm no longer a youth, you know what I mean.
And we want the elders in this space. And I
think that's been That's one of the most unique aspects
of the p m A is that it is that
intergenerational dialogue that I feel like we we desperately need
in this moment, right Like there has been some you

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know shifts, and you know, I think the the what
my mama used to describe as you know community, right,
and what we have today my mom used to say,
and we'll get a whooping from anybody on the block,
you know if we cut up.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
And how far are we away from that now? Right?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Or not even a whooping with discipline, right, Like, there
was a certain amount of respect that we had for
our elders and so on and so forth, and so
how did that get dismantled? How do how do we
actually rebuild those those those pieces with that. You know,
we want the youth, the elders, the middle ages, you know,
everybody in the space at one time, gen z, jen Alpha,
gen X, you know, baby boomers, everybody we want in

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the space, and the millennials.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
And what's the best way for people to find out
more information not only about the event, but also in
terms of reparations in general.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
The first thing I want folks to do is google
the UN's definition of reparations.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Try to type in you in reparations.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I think that's really important because I think you know,
movie skits like the Dave Chappelle's Get Back in the
Day really confused a lot of us as it relates
to reparation. We assumed that it was just like a
bag of money. It's so much more than that. Right,
I'll leave that there. If you want to contact Equity
and Transformation, you can go to eat org Chicago on
Instagram and or Twitter, and you can find us. You

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can go to ww dot e a t Chicago dot
org to visit our website. It's currently under construction, so
if you if you go there, you don't see anything
you can click on become a member.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
We have a membership base. That is that is the
core of our work.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
We don't believe that we can do this by ourselves,
and we know we ain't got enough money to just
throw money at the idea and make it happen, and
so we need people power and that requires us coming together.
And so we have a membership base, and we want
to invite anybody that is interested in the idea of reparations,
in the idea of community change, in the idea of

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you know, of community to click that button, apply and
become a member.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
There's no cost associated with it.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
All it takes is an opportunity for one of our
organizers to come out to meet with you, have a
one to one and then invite you out to our
monthly membership meetings.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Sounds so very good, and that is Richard Wallace who
is the co founder of Equity and Transformation Chicago. Richard,
nothing but the best for you man.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Indeed, I appreciate you. Thank you very much for having
for your time.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Voting is the most powerful tool citizens of a democracy possessed,
Yet many say we are witnessing an evisceration or outright
elimination of the fundamental right. In an effort to change
the current trend, there is a bill in the Illinois
legislature called the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Senior Young Voter
Empowerment Law. It passed the House last month, led by

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Kimberly Dublika. It is now up for a voter in
the Senate. And joining us this morning to discuss the
bill's fate are doctor Joe Anne Roberts, chair of the
coalition for the Jackson Young Voter Empowerment Bill, as well
as coalition member Devorah Craibel. Pleasure to have the both
of you join us. I want to begin first with you,
doctor Roberts. What is the current status of the bill

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in the Senate.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
The bill is in the Senate. It is in the
Executive Committee. We're hoping the bill will be called out
of committee and taken to the floor to be put
it on and once it sorted on by the Senate,
it will go to the governor for signature. As many
of You know, the bill originally to the House Senate

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was part of an omnibus bill, and there it became
in bottled into politics. So Senator du Blackaye, she sponsored
it under the leadership of the Speaker of the House,
Chris Walsh, and they sponsored it as a single long
and now it's again back into the Senate just as
an update waiting to be passed under the sponsorship again

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of Robert Peters and the many other Senators who have
signed on to support the bill. So we are in
the final stages.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Have you heard any word from if the bill passes,
if the governor will sign it.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yes, the government has committed to signing the bill once
it passes to the Senate. A lot of hard work
has gone on to move this bill through. We've been
working on it for over two years and so we're
very comfortable that once it gets out of the Senate,
the Governor will sign it and will become the law.
It's very important if i'm during this time, because we

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all know what's going on the decision of the Supreme Court.
This bill allows every high school student who's in high
school and eligible to vote, to be registered to vote
in high school and upon graduation, receive the diploma and
the voter registration card. Most of you know that Reverend
Jackson advocated for this for over sixty years. A diploma

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in one hand and a voter registration card in the
other hand. And if the time has never been more
present than it is today that we need to build
a base of voters. We need to build a strong
base of voters, and furthermore, we need to teach them
the power of their vote. And so, as I continue
for a few moments, the current governor passed the bill

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that allows sixteen years old to pre register to vote,
so they can already pre register. He also passed what
I call a book nd giving them two hours.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
To leave school to go vote.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
So in between, we've got to get the kids registered
to vote. As we were doing this project and I
was working on with Devorid Crable, we discovered from reports
from the Board of Election here in Chicago that the
majority of students who were registering to vote were on
the North Side, downtown and Lakefront, and so the question became,

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what about the rest of them? And that's how this
bill got started. After hearing all of that and getting
together with the people at Operation Push and them signing
off that we can name this bill after Reverend Jackson
and forming a coalition with the Craig from Betty Maddox,
Betty Magnus from Push, the Tina Brady Pettis, and Freddy

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from Chicago Votes. That's the core coalition that has been
working with me, hand and feet, as my mom would say.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
For the last two years.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
And then we've just.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Got a community of support from the community. Three thousand
kids sent and take action letters organizations to name some
of the ones you may be familiar with, the Urban League,
Rainbow Push of course, the NAACP, the Divine Nine, the
League of Women Voters, Association, University Voters.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
And the list goes on and on.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
So there's a lot of people behind wanting the children
to have the opportunity to register to vote. So we
are here today asking this audience to call their senators,
to called Senator Harmon, to call Senator Peter Peters, your
local senators, who may be Mattie Hunter, who may be
Email Jones, who may be Senator Length and Life for It,

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and maybe Senator Simmons, and I allow the vor to
continue to step in and continue this.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yes, yes, you're facing the May thirty first deadline. Why
is that a hard deadline.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
It's a hard deadline because the General Assembly will adjourn
on May the thirty first, and we want to make
sure that bill is passed well before then so the
governor can sign off on it and these students will
have this in place, hopefully before the critical November third
midterm election. It's very important for individuals to understand that

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when we take a look at what is happening in
our economic climate today, every single vote matters. We had
over ninety million people who are registered vote that did
not vote, and we need to get those people motivated.
A smaller number, but just as important of voters are unregistered,
and of those unregistered voters, it is a high school

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population that is the most underregistered population demographic among the
possible and potential of voting population.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
So it's very.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
Important when we understand that every vote matters in this election,
that we make sure every eligible voter is vote ready
and prepared to cast a ballot on November third. This
is a no joke, no kidding moment, a seminal moment
in the voting history of this nation. So much is
on the line and we must engage our young people

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and have them well prepared to engage the democratic process,
understand why it is important for them to vote. And
the best thing that we can do to make sure
they understand that is not delegating it just to the schools,
but for us to start talking about that situation at home,
at the dining room table, at the kitchen table, and
as we come up on this Memorial Day weekend, make

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sure you are engaged with everyone around you to get registered,
get in the game of the democratic process so that
they will be eligible to vote on November three.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Doesn't make what difference?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Go ahead?

Speaker 1 (17:45):
What do you offer to make it convenient for people
to contact their senators?

Speaker 6 (17:52):
We have several things that can happen. I have a
couple of phone numbers here for you that I can share.
For Senator President, the Senate President Don Harmon, his phone
number is two one seven seven eight two eight one
seven six. That's two one seven seven eight two eight
one seven six, And you can call the bill sponsor,

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Senator Robert Peters, and his phone numbered in downstate Illinois.
This is where they are right now. Two one seven
seven eight, two five three three eight, And we encourage
you to make those calls and make them often call
them once a day every day until this bill is passed.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Those phone calls make a difference.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
It also makes a difference if you're able to submit
letters of support in favor of the bill, and you
can do that at my website at KYP vote dot us.
That's no your power vote dot us, because this selection
is about all of us.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Know your power, vote, and especially if you're young, and
especially if you're a young person. We want to thank
doctor Roberts as well as Devora Craigil for joining us
this morning and make sure that you, of course make
sure that you know your power and vote and hold
those who make votes accountable. Okay, thank you, thank you.

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For centuries black and brown people have been excluded from
occupying the top offices in corporate America. Things really started
to change as a result of the Civil Rights movement
as doors open for people of color in corporate America
because of affirmative action policies. Recently, the pipeline to C
suites has constricted because of decreases as well as outright

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elimination and commitments to corporate diversity. Well, my next guest
is committed to increasing diversity in Corporate America. He is
Leforce Baker of Baker Enterprises, the Chicago based retail growth
advisory firm, and now he's co organizer, along with his
partner Ivonne and Nikolik, of a program called Underrepresented at

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the Top. And it is a pleasure this morning to
be joined by La Force. How are you doing, my.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
Friend, I'm doing fantastic. Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
I have been involved in diversity efforts, whether at the
corporate or education level, for a majority of my life.
Tell me about your evolution in terms of into the
diversity arena.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
Yeah, so you know, I have been no stranger to
being one of few people of color in the room
when I have worked at various different jobs, whether it
be in Corporate America, when I was working at a
global marketing agency, or when I was working at the
City of Chicago, and then now in my own firm,

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where essentially I sit in between the worlds of commercial
real estate and marketing, which are worlds where you don't
see a whole lot of us, and there's not a
lot of representation in terms of people of color, and
also just women in general in the field. And so
you know, I wanted to number one, help to bring

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others up, you know, and make sure we are represented,
but then also make sure that we stay there. You know,
I've looked around and I've seen you know, less of
our faces in the spaces that I go to for
work every day, and so, you know, I wanted to
do something about that.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
So what would you say was the epiphany moment for
you man that said, Hey, I'm in a position where
I can do something, well, hopefully make some positive change here.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
I think the epiphany moment I was chatting with one
of my friends, and you know, she talked about the
challenges that she faced as a Mexican American woman, and
I talked about the challenges I faced as a you know,
African American man, being in spaces where there's not a
lot of representation. And we said, you know what, there

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needs to be a space where we can talk about
these things, especially you know, during these challenging times. And
so you know, that's where the idea of underrepresented at
the top came up. You know, we like to get
together just to kind of just celebrate, you know, on
a weekend, but I said, like, why not make it
productive where we can you know, have a good time

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in the West Loot downtown Chicago, but talk about the
things that you know, really matter for us to move
up in our careers. You know, this is something that
happens naturally, I think outside of our community.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
At home. Yeah, in terms of.

Speaker 7 (22:32):
Like networking, in terms of sharing knowledge about how to
move up, in terms of sharing contacts. You know, we
don't necessarily do that naturally, and that's something I think
that's newer in our community. So we thought they would
be great to facilitate a space where people can come,
they can have a good time, but they can also
get the connections they need to move up in their field.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
So let's talk about this event called Underrepresented at the Top.
It's taking place on Thursday over there at the Hawkson,
which is located at two hundred North Green in the
West Loop. Give me the details about.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
It, yeah, so you know, it'll be after work from
five thirty seven thirty. It's a kind of networking event
cocktail hour on a really nice rooftop. And the whole
idea is that we have this panel of you know,
black and brown folks, women that have made it to
the top of their fields. You know, we have a
wide variety of fields from accounting. We have a Travis

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who he's a partner with a global counting firm. We
have Asa who's at Christian Wakefield, one of the top
commercial real estate firms in the world. You have myself
again as leading Baker Enterprises. We have Evanna who is
at a top marketing agency here in Chicago. And then
we have Samantha Chapman from ABC seven as the MC.

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And so you know, we're hoping that when people come out,
they can you know, have a good time, hopefully meet
someone new, and then maybe they might even land a job.
You know, because people on this panel, not only are
they in leadership, they control budgets, they control jobs.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
So with that being said, we hope it's also.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
This is a ticketed event. But is there a specific
demo that you're targeting right now?

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Sure, I mean the target target audience for this, I
think it's two pronged. Number One, we have people that
are already managers.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
And they are looking at how do they move up.

Speaker 7 (24:29):
They can talk to people that are on the panel
that are in ceasuit position, so CEOs or managing directors,
how did they get there? They can fly a path
for that. Then you have another group I call them,
you know, folks that are just starting their careers, kind
of emerging professionals, people that have just gotten out of
school or maybe they've been working a few years. This

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is also for them because they can figure out, all right,
do I want to, you know, go down the leadership
track and if so, this is the path, you know,
to move up the ladder in corporate America. Or let's
say they talk to someone like myself, they could figure out, okay,
how do I go from corporate America to owning my
own business.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
There's that path as well.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
So this is a chance for people to get real
access to the people that are already doing it so
that hopefully they can come up with a plan on
how they get there.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
And the interesting thing that I have to applaud you
on is because instead of talking mentorship, what we really
need to discuss is sponsorship with somebody almost takes you
under their wings and sponsors you before their peers.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Exactly.

Speaker 7 (25:40):
You know, So that's one of the topics that we'll
be talking about. You know, there's a ton of mentorship programs,
and mentorship is helpful. I think mentorship puts you on
a positive path but the sponsorship is what's needed the most.
I think about in my own career, there was a
guy after American guy that was old enough to be

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my father. He really took me under his wing a
little earlier in my career and say like, hey, you should,
you know, do this thing. You should join this committee,
you should do this because that's going to position you
to do this. And he not only did that, he
invited me to things. He said, hey, LaForce should be

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a part of this. You al should talk to him.
You ever heard of BEFORE'ST Baker. He's phenomenal. I think
that that's critical. And you know, again, hopefully folks coming
to this event can find them a sponsor, can find
them a mentor if that's need, if they're early in
their career.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah, And what do.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
You hope are the big takeaways for people to come
out and attend.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (26:43):
I think the big takeaways will be that, you know,
you will walk away with knowledge that's really really hard
for you to get from Google or chat GBT.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
This is stuff that you know.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
We should learn in school, but it's not taught in school,
and so SAT skills like learning you know, how to
properly network, how to follow up, how to make sure
that you're the first person that people think of when
you know they're giving out these jobs, because I think,
you know, in these times that we're in where it's
really challenging to get a job, people are getting laid off,

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things like that, the people that are winning are those
that have this kind of insider knowledge. And so we
want to make this insider knowledge not so inside and
make it public so that people in our community can win.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
And what is your hope for underrepresented at the top.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Yeah, I mean my hope is that you know, this
becomes an annual series.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
It might even be bi.

Speaker 7 (27:39):
Annual where you know, we bring in different speakers from
various different fields, and you know, we do it at
different venues. I mean, we're doing that at this beautiful
venue in the West Loop on a rooftop. You know,
we think there'll be a good time for folks as well,
because I think another thing we need right now is
in person community because everything is online, which is great,

(28:01):
but it is nice to see.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Someone in real life.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
And so yeah, you know, my hope is that this
becomes an annual event and that we build a community
where hopefully, you know, people can help one another build
instead of just doing it on their own.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Now, once again we're telling everybody that Underrepresented at the
Top is taking place Thursday, May twenty or eighth over
at the Huckson which is located at two hundred North
Green from five thirty to eight o'clock.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
Yeah, from five thirty to seven thirty. Free park well
not free parking, but there's valet parking for twenty five bucks,
which is like unheard of downtown for four hours. So
you know, you can just pull up walk in, or
you can take an uber or the train.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
And what is the best way for people to find
out more information about this particular event.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yeah, the best way for people to find out info
and to get tickets is to actually follow me on
social media on all platforms. So you know, that's Instagram, TikTok,
LinkedIn Facebook, Apple of Forest Baker, that's l A f
O R ce b A k e R.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
The link is in my bio on all of those channels.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well that sounds good, and let's hope that you are
and continue to be a force for diversity. The force.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Ah, thank you so much.

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Hey man, it's in your name. You got to make sure.

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You prove it yep.

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So I had I gotta do something with.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
It, right, you got to nothing but the best to
you man.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Oh, thank you so much.

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