LeDerick Horne
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300 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
LeDerick Horne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Be who you want to be.
Um, and so that's a a lot of the work that happened during that time for me.
Yeah, and it's uh I it's an amazing time to be alive, you know, and I if I'm honest, I think I'm still on that path of self exploration and self definition.
Um, and I I really make a point to follow, you know, what what all the young people are doing, right?
Um, and taking a lead from from many of the young activists and advocates who are who are doing work now.
do.
They're not
Well I I love collaboration, both as an advocate and as an artist.
And some of the more longstanding work that I've done is been in collaboration with um education leaders.
You know, so the f one of the first things that comes to mind is that
I want to say for maybe 13 years I've been working with the State of Nevada's Department of Education.
Um they have an incredible initiative there where they do a summit, the um the Nevada Student Leader Transition Summit.
And um the initiative initially began from a director from their state department, their state director of special education, wanting to hear directly from young people.
people who were in special ed about the quality of the work that they were doing.
And so uh I remember uh, you know, in our first first few years, just sort of sitting in a room with a whiteboard and just talking to these young people, you know, and and getting direction from them.
And what was amazing is that the state really took their input seriously.
And what it has developed into over the years is that you know we've been able to build a strong capacity for student leaders within the state.
And so more recently, the state has hired, I think about 25 of those young people to now go back into their old high schools.
And they are directing teams of young folks on IEPs on how
Um, and you know, it's uh there's really d a lot of data out there around how giving someone that agency while they're still young um can really help lead to to positive uh post-secondary outcomes.
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