Marc Morial

But I loved every minute of it because I felt close to the people.

And the people treat you like you're their big brother.

Older women treat me, I'm like their son.

You know, they treat you like like you're their neighbor.

Right.

And that that relationship with the people is something I really, really treasure.

You know, when I got the call to basically asking me if I would interview.

For the job, I was about six or eight months out of office.

I begun practicing law at a great law firm.

And the first thing I thought of was Whitney Young and Vernon Jordan.

And I thought of they were role models of mine.

I mean, Whitney Young, I followed his career to the pages of Jet magazine.

Vernon Jordan, I met when I was a teenager.

Later on, met him again because his daughter went to college with me at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mick, can you hear me?

Is it going okay?

Yeah, and so I thought, wow, this is a historic civil rights organization.

This is a great opportunity.

This is a national stage of advocacy.

I didn't know at the time, as I applied and got the job, that the organization needed a serious uplift.