Honoring the America 250 Essay Contest Winners, Part 2
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🗓️ 3 July 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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On today’s special edition of Family Talk, Gary Bauer welcomes the high school winner of the USA250 essay contest, Crystal Konadu.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us. |
| 0:18.5 | Well, welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast division of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy at JDFI. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm really glad that you joined us today. |
| 0:32.8 | We're going to talk today and continue to highlight the winners of our America 250 essay |
| 0:40.1 | contest. |
| 0:41.4 | I have the great honor today to talk to our high school winner of our essay contest, Crystal |
| 0:47.9 | Conadu. |
| 0:48.9 | Crystal, congratulations on your big win and welcome to Family Talk. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you so much. Hi, my name is |
| 0:56.3 | Crystal Oconeidu, like you said. I am a Ghanaian-American, I guess, first generation. My parents |
| 1:02.9 | are both immigrants. I was born here and I love my country. I love my culture. I love |
| 1:10.0 | learning about history and writing and reading as |
| 1:13.7 | well. So crafting this essay was honestly really fun for me and I'm so grateful that I have this |
| 1:19.2 | opportunity. So thank you guys so much. |
| 1:21.5 | Well, all of our listeners, Chris, so I think they just all figured out why you were the winner |
| 1:25.4 | of the essay contest. That was a great first response from our introduction. |
| 1:31.8 | What a great way to begin our conversation. |
| 1:34.2 | So, Crystal, I'd like to start, we could tell a lot about you by just reading the wonderful essay, |
| 1:42.1 | but tell us a little bit more about you, you know, the things you like doing. |
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