Jaylen Brown

Things are more connected than education and the wealth disparity.

I think some of those things are more connected than they are apart.

So I'm working on building into one foundation, the Juice Foundation.

But the bridge is something that I guess like a family tradition, education is very important to my family.

So being able to take kids that come from

certain area codes or certain districts that you know get the maybe the short end of the stick to some degree they get the least amount of resources or they're understaffed from a teacher standpoint or just just the opportunities are a lot slimmer in these areas and we take students who have

who want to help their community, who really, that's really the number one thing.

They have the aptitude to want to just make the world a better place.

We find those students in those areas, and we bring them into the Bridge Program and give them the tools and resources to go be whatever it is that they imagine to be in this world.

But the reason for it, I was one of those kids.

I come from a single-parent household.

I grew up in a certain community.

Area codes and districts that don't get the same educational quality that schools that are in more affluent areas get.

The resources are more limited and things like that.

You got 30 students, 35 students in the classroom, one teacher.

It just...

not great analytics for success educationally, but I've always wanted to help people, I've always wanted to make the world a better place, and I've always loved to learn.

So those students exist, regardless of the area code or the school district they come from.

And, you know, I want to find those kids and I want to give them the tools that they need to be successful because I feel like those are the type of students that will, you know,

They have the work ethic, they have the drive, and they have the empathy to go out and change the world.