I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

And welcome to another episode of Bacardi's on this podcast.

Today we have somebody brilliant with us who does the work of the people and one of the things amazing about

Kamala Harris is she always talks about workers and she always talks about

labor and not necessarily the big bosses.

But I have April Verret with us.

How are you doing today first?

And your aesthetic, the background and all that stuff is pretty dope.

Where you at?

I live in my office.

That's a good vibe right there.

Thank you.

My show is unique because we ask every guest the same first question, which is the walk us through the arc of your career. And so walk us through the arc of your career.

And so walk us through the arc of your career

from school to where you are now

and how you ended up in the space that you're in.

Ah, well, I'm a South Side girl born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, and I was one of those

young people that was going to school and working, and eventually I was working more than I was going to school.

Let me tell it, I'm probably still going to school, still in pursuit of that degree.

I just haven't, you know, I've just taken more than a few semesters off,

but, you know, found myself working at a labor side law firm in Chicago, and someone said to me, hey, do you want to be an organizer? And at the time, I really had no idea what that was but look they was going to pay me

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