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Social work alumna and 2023-24 Alumni Humanitarian Celeste Hodge Growden is the president and CEO of the Alaska Black Caucus. By focusing on the four core areas of justice, education, economics and health, Growden works toward enacting racial equity through the process of institutional reform.
Like five years ago there was a pep rally where one of the members of the school body had -- appeared to have black face on. people have even asked you to explain that. how do you explain that? >> i just explain it as showing our school spirit. we have many themes, nerd, business, blue out, black out as seen in the video. ever since i have gone to co cath because of the video. i know the kids meant nothing by it. it was showing school spirit. steve: one of the so-called blackout days. i have got to ask you, grant, are you worried about your reputation? here you are in high school. you would li...