Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings

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Document Type

Oral History

Publication Date

4-5-2016

Abstract

Lea Michelle Cash interviews Porsche Nichols McCoy, a woman with a deep history of helping her community. She mentions how impactful it was for her as a high school student to be able to spend a week on campus to learn college and adult skills through the Black Future Leaders program. It made such a big impact, that she had told a cousin the next year to join as well as other youth. She also mentions that many of those who went through the program went on to have successful careers. Nichols McCoy mentions that, after starting her college education in California and working in television, she traveled to New York to be close to her best friend as well as her future husband. There, she was able to continue her master's programs and eventually go back to California to help with the family business and eventually join the Arrowhead United Way non-profit program. After she applied for the position of Director of Resource Development, she secured the position. She was then working towards finding funding for the Arrowhead United Way when she met people who were once in Black Future Leaders. All of them had similar stories of how the program they were a part of had permanently given them skills and experience that they continued to use. The interview ends with Cash asking Nichols McCoy about mentors and the influence that she had during her time in Black Future Leaders.

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