article_snippet.sent: Below is an edited version of our conversation.
article_snippet.sent: : You're a pretty cool guy — some might be surprised to hear that you were once bullied.
article_snippet.sent: What did you experience and how did you overcome it?
article_snippet.sent: : What can students expect when students join your program?
article_snippet.sent: Marissa Calhoun: Why do you focus on middle schoolers?
article_snippet.sent: Then I saw a kid have that experience through our program, and it changed everything.
article_snippet.sent: It's an incredible feeling.
article_snippet.sent: My hopes for the children that our work with are that the children that we work vision of the world and the children that we work vision of the children that we work is changed in some way, that the children that we work hold the children that we work to more than other people might, and that the children that we work realize there's a whole world out there that the children that we work could very much be a part of that isn't necessarily the one right outside the children that we work doorstep.
article_snippet.sent: And I think it's going to change the lives of these students in a really dramatic way.
article_snippet.sent: Want to get involved?