Lev Gonick

No excuses, Ed.

I'll take you out on the town.

Yes, so Candace is with a K. She used to say when she was young, not with a C, which everyone would kind of guess to.

She's Candace Springs.

Honestly, I'd lead by example.

I mean, that's sort of been my mantra, trying my best.

To be ready to be player coach, you know, that's kind of another really important piece of it.

Try very much to build community, both at work and more broadly.

That's another big part of sort of my DNA and sort of my, you know, my center and North Star.

Not to go back to the beginning of time, but I'd sort of say I grew up in an academic family.

And for me, you know, it was all I was always and I still am always amazed at this incredible institution that humans have created called universities.

It's got to be the most marvelous sort of creation in terms of.

The opportunities to set people off on a journey, to discover who they are, help them change the world in whatever way they want to change the world, to open doors.

I mean, just that journey of discovery for me has always been amazing.

So I grew up in that environment.

And for me, you know, it was kind of a natural thing to...

Once I finally decided to go to college, which I was a couple of years late because I did grow up in an academic family.

And I thought initially, like, the world's not big enough for two gonics or three gonics in academic life.

But after I decided to get into academic life, I was a faculty member.

You know, I did a lot of work.