>> thank you so much for having me on this show tonight. i really appreciate you opening the opportunity to talk about this incredibly important topic. this is something that we, as researchers in psychology and psychiatry have known for a long time. in terms of the why, i think that we can point to a lot of social and economic factors that disproportionately affect black youth. we know risk factors around trauma, depression, anxiety, unemployment are key predictors of risk know that emotional risk factors like feelings of hopelessness and feelings of despair are key risk factors. really a lot of youth feeling like they don't see kind of the light at the end of the tunnel. being surrounded by environments where they're not sure the steps that can be taken in order to improve their life circumstances and the trajectory of their life