harlem native, marsha jean charles, who's an alum who is currently a doctoral student, and stephan douglas-allen, who is a member and who is attending ithaca college. a great broadcasting school, i might add. i want to welcome all of you. thank you for coming here to "viewpoint" today. well, first of all, what led you to found the organization? >> well, the brotherhood/sister sol is 20 years old. jason warwin and i cofounded the organization. we were social entrepreneurs. we saw a need to respond to the inequity that we saw in the city, the kind of miseducation young people experienced, the lack of opportunity and jobs, the inundation of violence, and we felt we had to create a program to help young people to overcome those realities and build strong, stable lives, break cycles of poverty, and really form a moral and ethical code that would help guide them throughout their development. >> and so now you have a doctoral student and a person -- did i mention that ithaca's one of the greatest broadcasting schools in america? by the way, what do you want to be? what are you studying? >> i'm actually