Ep. - 723 - KATE’S LIFE: DEESHA DYER
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Kate interviews her Milton Hershey School classmate Deesha Dyer.
Deesha Dyer is the Founder & CEO of Hook & Fasten, a social impact firm. Dyer is an award-winning event strategist, community organizer, and sought-after keynote speaker. A 2019 Resident Fellow for the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, her journey began at a community college and led to her role as social secretary for the Obama White House. Dyer worked with the President and First Lady to plan and arrange all official and personal events hosted at the White House.
Dyer is also the Co-founder and Executive Director of beGirl.world, an organization that empowers teen girls through global education and travel. Additionally, she oversees Black Girl 44, a scholarship fund for young black women seeking internships in Washington, D.C., and the Deesha Dyer Second Chance Scholarship at the Community College of Philadelphia. Her work has led to her being named Marie Claire’s new guard of women changing the world and the Root’s most influential African-Americans. She has also been featured in Vogue, Travelnoire, and The Washington Post and in 2022, Deesha was awarded the Women of Excellence Award by the city of Washington, DC.
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| 0:00.0 | I love my kid, but is a new comedy parenting podcast from Wondry that shares a refreshingly |
| 0:05.3 | honest and insightful take on parenting. Each week, the host will share a parenting story that'll |
| 0:10.1 | have you laughing and thinking, yes, I have absolutely been there. Listen to, I love my kid, |
| 0:16.3 | but on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. I hope that you had a great week, |
| 0:28.8 | and this is my Saturday episode. My Saturday series has been devoted to telling a little bit more |
| 0:34.0 | about my own personal story. And in the process, I have at times interviewed people that are in my |
| 0:39.6 | own life, people that have been inspiring to me and have a connection. In this episode, I interview |
| 0:45.5 | one of my Milton Hershey classmates. If you want to hear more about my own experience at the |
| 0:50.0 | Milton Hershey School, you can go back to episode 631. Milton Hershey, the chocolate magnet, made an |
| 0:57.5 | enormous fortune pioneering melt chocolate. He was the only son of an alcoholic father who left |
| 1:03.3 | his family for periods of time. Though he only had a fourth grade education, he created a multinational |
| 1:10.7 | company and one of the world's largest chocolate manufacturers. He and his wife Catherine wanted to |
| 1:16.8 | put their growing fortune to good use because they love children and were unable to have any of their |
| 1:22.3 | own. They decided to start a school in 1909 for low income and orphaned boys that Milton Hershey |
| 1:29.5 | School. In a 1923 interview with the New York Times, he was asked what he was to do with his |
| 1:35.2 | enormous fortune and he explained, I have no errors, so I've decided to make the orphaned boys of |
| 1:41.2 | the United States my errors. When he died in 1945 at age 88, the school was the primary recipient of |
| 1:48.4 | the fortune. In 1976, the deed of trust was modified to accept girls. Today, the school which |
| 1:54.9 | includes the Hershey Chocolate and Entertainment Company has the largest endowment in the country, |
| 2:00.3 | second to Harvard University. It is valued at $8 billion. The school has students between kindergarten |
| 2:08.0 | and 12. You have to qualify. Students are emotionally and financially needy. So all of my classmates, |
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