Hi, I'm Ali Jackson Jolly. I'm here with Terence Cummings, who is the Chief Opportunity

Officer for Guild. Terence, thanks for being with us.

Yeah, it's a pleasure.

Thank you.

Yeah, so I should start by saying, for those who aren't familiar,

Guild is a career opportunities platform, and you are relatively new to your role.

It is a role that was created nine months ago when you took over that role.

And so I guess first I just want to hear, you know,

why was that necessary?

The opportunity has been something since we started eight years ago that has been core to what Gilt does and it's looking at the individuals across this country that don't have a fair shot at the same types of opportunities other people do?

How do we help them to build that primarily through learning and education?

And something that I say a lot is that if you want to understand something, you it if you want to improve it you focus on it and

We'd seen that this is a time in our existence that focusing deeply on how do we build cultures of opportunity both inside of our company as

well as across corporations in America like we have to go deep there so that's why

we created the role to have someone who day in and day out that someone being me is thinking about how do we build opportunity.

Yeah, so and it's not lost on me that it's called an opportunity officer versus a

DEI officer.

You know, in right now, diversity initiatives

are sort of under fire, right?

We watched this past week as the congressional hearings around anti-Semitism on campus spoke

with a few, specifically three presidents from universities but beyond just talking

about you know the anti-Semitism on campus and what they could have done differently

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