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We always say in 
education that you


know context really matters.


Where you are and learning 
from the context around


you is as important as what 
you learn in the classroom.


What you see and 
experience at USF


is that the staff 
and the faculty


draw upon and live 
in and participate


in the diverse communities 
of the Bay Area


and bring those 
experiences to this campus.


When I think about USF, and then 
when I think about [INAUDIBLE]


as well, I'm always grounded 
by our social justice


values as well as the idea of 
bringing in our holistic self,


right?


Really valuing what it means to 
be practicing the common good


and what it means to be 
having these critical spaces


of reflection.


The city provides 
many contradictions


into which we can really 
delve and question


and you know become curious to 
even understand social reality


in a different way.


Knowing that I have this 
mission of justice and truth


as a kind of backstop helps 
me be the kind of professor


that I want to be, where 
I can engage students


in kind of deeper 
conversations and we


go beyond just trying to 
figure out what are the facts.


It feels-- and I 
especially feel this


in the School of Education-- 
but really across the university


that I'm in the company of 
others who really understand


reality in a deeper 
way and are there


to act in service of those 
who have been marginalized.


Let's recognize the 
privileges that we


hold in working 
for an institution


and let's also continue to be 
humble about those privileges


and how do we use those 
privileges to really


push these conversations 
forward to make sure


that the access to opportunities 
for all is a reality too.