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hello everyone and thank you for joining us this morning this afternoon this evening my name is tana dawkin chief data privacy officer for the world bank i will moderate this session and we will be engaging in a discussion with our featured speaker as well as managing the questions we've received from our attendees ahead of time this session of our two-day data privacy day event is a special one the spoken word performance and follow-up discussion with our wonderful future performer and winner of america's got talent 2020 brandon luke in addition to being a talented artist mr lee is also the founder and ceo of an organization called called to move to deliver closing remarks we have mr ethiopis tafara vice president and chief risk legal and administrative officer at nica finally we are also honored to have sandy okoro senior vice president and general counsel for the world bank group and vice president of compliance to the world bank sandy will give opening remarks sandy is a strong champion and advocate for the world bank group's data privacy agenda and we are thrilled to have you here with us over to you sandy thank you very much tammy and as let me repeat good morning good afternoon and good evening to all of you wherever you are and tammy thank you so much and to all of your team for uh this effort in highlighting the importance of data privacy the world bank group has formed a task force on racism to examine various internal and external workings of the institution and its intersectionality with race and ethnicity we appreciate that meaningful change real change can only happen if culture and behaviors change too when it comes to data privacy the questions arise what does data privacy have to do with race racism or racial discrimination our adventure to say that data privacy has a lot to do with race because appropriate data can help us in understanding trends can illustrate patterns in demographics and we can also rely on it as a predictor for potential outcomes so data is important and it is true to say that the fear exists that if misused racial and ethnic data could also be used for racial profiling something that scares all of us without a doubt in terms of data privacy what we see is either people provide too much information about themselves or not enough in fact here at the bank world bank we are seeing that very problem in that people aren't providing enough data so we can do uh trend analysis on race so what lends itself to debate is how much does one disclose without compromising privacy and still balance it with a with helping the community and society in having robust data a real balance to be struck there and a lot of food for thought on this we are going to get into a really interesting discussion with our guest of honor who is a poet not just a poet but a powerhouse of a poet whose words encapsulate experiences and resonate with justice and truth so it is my great pleasure and honor to welcome the winner of america's got talent 2020 the great brandon leake we are so delighted to have him with us here today and let me just say hello this uh brandon it's wonderful to have you with us and let me just say that this wonderful artistic performance by brandon does include a narration of a racist incident that happened to him he uses the explicit words that were used to him it contains some swearing and a nasty racial epithet so you may feel as comfortable and uncomfortable as he was made to feel too but this is a powerful piece and i hope you enjoy it brandon over to you hello everyone my name is brandon leake i am a spoken word artist out of stockton california in particular southside stockton that's my home i'm born and raised here um and i'm a husband a father a son brother christian but what i'm most prominently known for as of right now is being the winner of season 15 of america's got talent and the thing that i do is i share poetry spoken word to be particular and today what you will be receiving from me are several different pieces in which are navigating this type rope of a journey of societal injustice um and inevitably leading itself towards um reconciliation and healing we as a country have not yet gotten there but i have good faith to believe that we can so i i feel the best way for me to introduce this time um is actually with a poem entitled steps so you all can get to know me a little bit so here we go to being brandon leake one you you gotta first be named brandon leake two be born on may 4th 1992 with an extremely large head um sorry about that mom three be born to a mother who got a heart of gold and just pray that she also got that might as touch four be born and raised here in south side stockton and a cable of hard rocks to impress to become gems five be born with brown skin this excessive amount of melanin will surely dictate much of your future be sure to remember these steps six be born with all of your limbs and then remove one my fault no remove your father no surprises here refer back to step five seven have abandonment issues these will surely ruin their ugly heads later eight cling to your mother she's the only form of consistency that you've ever known be sure to push all other men in her life away she's not leave you just like he did refer back to step six nine go to go to middle school and uh get yourself a girl for brandon uh tim you know that girl that we was just talking about like five seconds ago um you see that that didn't quite work out so uh go ahead brandon hand out your heart to girls in a desperate attempt to avoid this painful agony that we call loneliness refer back to step seven eleven repeat step ten continuously twelve pray for brighter days because they cast our shadows for your fears to hide in thirteen wear masks because they'll make you far more tolerable to the world fourteen don't forget to have a real complicated relationship with your stepfather argue with him repeatedly until these twists become your only form of expression 15 up little boy i thought i told you real men know got depression 16. dream of doing what no one in your family has ever done before and then go do it 17 go out to college and then try to reinvent yourself to be the cool guy you always dreamed to be when you was in high school way before i had all these bills 18 understand that there is no escaping reality you are who you always have been no matter the location 19 face-on is but you see brandon you're just not you're not ready for that burden yet bro so let's try that again 19 face loneliness but you see brandon you're just not strong enough for that journey yet bro so i i guess the easier way to express this to y'all be like this see when i was four years old my eight and a half month old sister danielle marie gibson she died in the car next to me due to heart failure so death isn't something i really adopted but more so grew myself into and i can't help but think that my roots still lie six feet deep alongside her and then my grandfather the only father figure i've ever known uh my senior year of my senior year of high school he he drowned no my fault he he died due to lung and liver cancer rushing to a hospital next to his wife of 50 years in the graduation ceremony with only one seat left empty never left lee feeling so numb inside and then my best friend my brother bernard daniels he he drowned in a levee two blocks behind my old neighborhood running away from a rival gang during my freshman year of college and i was 200 miles too far north to embrace his body before it ever turned cold before you ever stop breathing before you ever never returned home again 20 i wake up most mornings just to let myself in this mirror and i see a reflection of a stranger this guy who i know resides inside but i'm too afraid i'm too scared and i'm far too fearful to finally unzip myself from my own skin to allow this world to see me uncovered nothing but dry bones raw meat and a barren soul just for the world to respond back saying hey yo brother baby we appreciate transparency and everything but to us dog don't even stress you're just not gonna be good enough 21 22 23 24 25 there's no more steps just tons of questions like who's brandon leake anyways so like i i like to lead off with that piece and and one of the biggest reasons why i enjoy leading off with a piece like that is because it gives a framework for you all to understand my journey and and as this journey continues as i share more of these poems what inevitably ends up happening is people people end up you know drafting and making their own assumptions about people they see them have success and they'll ask like you know do they have a hard life did they have an easy life like what were the circumstances of their upbringing who was around them like where did they grow up at and i i know for a fact it's it's a really interesting thing when people hear stockton i i know all the stereotypes that they hear and if i'm being honest i'll share with you who i am and where i'm from so i guess i just showed you who i am let me show you where i'm from because hello everybody my name is brandon lee and i'll be your tour guide today through six and nightingale our little hood oasis please be sure not to stray too far away from the group where we are not liable for your safety i feel it's only fitting that we start this to our property pool side or should i say pool's side because here's six nightingale we believe is in options and i know what you may be wondering why are all these pools discolored astute observation my friend you see here at six nightingale we believe in providing our residents with only the finest of inebriation so go ahead and take your pick whether it be vodka gin malt liquor tonic whatever your heart desires to escape we will provide for you but you with the pajama pants on you had a question oh you want fresh clean water man you see you know that's the good stuff that'll cost you for someone in your financial position it'd be much more cost effective for you to simply get a pool full of cheap liquor and then dive in it but anyway on to our next display here we have our cafeteria our employees receive calories and salaries take out all the snacks chips candy soda a person could ever want and if that doesn't satisfy your needs no need to fret we have our never ending dollar menu and top ramen cuisine which is sure to hit that palette of yours just right but i'm sorry you all this tour will continue but we have another question oh you want fresh fruits and vegetables and meat too gosh dang how cute see uh i think you may have us mistaken with our location just a tad bit farther up north from here but you see this tour must go on to our left we have our local community resource center it's oftentimes empty due to risk of injury from fellow residents but to our right we also have our local community resource center the second one i thought we already have one of those but you see it's oftentimes also empty due to the fact that people don't trust who or what lies inside but here we have our crown jewel of them all a brand new school here your students will receive a quality education will give them experienced teachers who are so burnt out about the problems that we don't help them out with that they don't really care no more but we'll give them books and computers but not the necessary education requirements for them to be able to attend college because i mean who would want to leave this beautiful place anyway i mean here we built susa we built such a self-sufficient system that we rarely have any vacancies so no one ever really leaves they just continue to refuel our machine my fault um that's not in the brochure you see you see here it reads that they continue to re-inhabit our communities yeah that's what it is um but unfortunately at this moment well first of all welcome to 6-9 guild but unfortunately at this moment we we don't really have any vacancies hey calm down calm down this is actually really good news see we we had a young black boy who just got gunned down by the police it's a reenactment of uh 2019 18 17 16 15. but you know what i mean uh but now since he's gone it appears now that we also have a vacancy so would you like to move in now or maybe later and see i uh i do that poem in such a sarcastic tone because it it's an odd thing growing up where i'm from and where many people are from who look like me that we we are raised in neighborhoods with that are food deserts that have low income so our schools don't get all the resources they need um industry doesn't come to our neighborhoods but we have alcohol drugs over policing and lack of access to pretty much all fundamental needs to help improve one's life and then people ask why we'd be self-destructed and it wasn't until i became older that i began to realize i'm like man we really do exist in this powder cake that will will really blow up in our faces due to the fact that people don't really understand that what we're doing isn't working and and i know one of the biggest things that people have asked during the course of this time as mental health has become significantly greater on the mind's eye of the world is you know like like black people how come you guys don't seem to take mental health as seriously as as other people do and i i think um i think one of the reasons for that is due to the fact that we are still dealing with maslow's hierarchy of neet um the fact of the matter is we're out here just simply trying to survive and one of those moments of one of those moments of survival i dealt with in my own personal life i remember i pulled over to a gas station and i went inside to go get some food and some gas i had already pumped my gas went back to go get the food that i had ordered that was getting cooked came back out and there's a gentleman in this huge truck standing behind me and what ended up happening was as he saw me come out with my food he said no effing way no effing way you the you and then he reached into his car and he grabbed a gun me spooked stood still he stares at me throws the gun back in the car and says you're not worth the ammunition and then drives off and i remember hopping back into my car calling my mom and the first thing that she told me after i finished sharing the story was pookie i didn't even know that you made it [Music] because when i'm up here on stage they call me brandon when i'm with my homies they call me b and when i'm with the ladies let's just say they call me taking because i'm already happily spoken for but when i'm at home my mama my mama and my mama alone call me pookie and no i'm not afraid to admit it my mother calls me phuket like the most inopportune knowledge for instance today on my way here to get ready to you know do this whole thing with y'all at world bank my mama made sure to call me on the phone and say make sure that you call me when you get there even if it's only virtually pookie and like i get why my mother said it out of courtesy but to be real i don't understand what my mom's so concerned for my safety praying for me as i leave her house on a daily because i'm just a young black man who got faith in jesus the same way that stars have faith the space will protect them from this galactic believer we call gravity who wants to turn their star to splendid spectacle for passive bias to watch in all of its deaths so yes i never really understood the issue and then i went on facebook and i realized that my mama loved me the same way every mother love they sun fearfully because normally that don't really bother me i mean i'm from south side stopped and i'm all too familiar with how some family reunions only ever take place on graveyard grass and how a hole can be a safe haven for a soul in this mortal game of hide-and-go-seek but you see there's something so different about ahmad aubry george floyd brianna taylor and the countless others and as i stared at that screen i couldn't help but think i was looking at a mirror image of myself being choked out or gunned down for merely breathing or for daring to be more than three-fifths of what they both thought them to be or maybe it was simply due to their hue and how this melon and skin could absorb the sun but can't stand the rain and in that moment i better understand my black m ther's greatest fear with every time i leave a home on the other side of this phone will no longer be a son but be america's next most popular hashtag accompanied by video of her young star being gunned down by gravity as my stardust has turned splendid spectacle for passive buyers to watch in awe of my death so yes my mother's greatest fear is i won't return home breathing blood pulsing through these veins enough to still be her kooky and my mama warm me son don't you dare get caught at that wrong place at that wrong time with that wrong colored skin cause those three strikes they leave the pine box convictions and i need you to return home my pookie again i promise you this i will do everything in my power to make it back home to you but if i don't just know you're the very last thing on my mind and i will always always feel the issues that everyone faces in this world are not absentee in my community in fact they're heightened due to the fact that there is so much need yet so little understanding of how to provide it and that's why i look at our nation as a true beacon of hope for what we can be because if we finally begin to abandon this melting pot ideology this idea that we have to all assimilate into this one thing in order for it to be beautiful i i think in fact it's the opposite i think instead of looking at ourselves as a melting pot but instead beginning to view ourselves as a mosaic a beautiful piece of art that has all of these independently shiny different bits and pieces different colors that are representative of our different cultures our different heritage our different religions ethnicities genders identities all of these different things that come together i i genuinely do believe that we can be a beautiful a beautiful spotlight for the world to see just what it's like when when unity is is is on the forefront when when loving one another is is not only the mission but the objective and and one in which we go out and go do on a daily basis and with that in mind i have a poem i'd like to read to you all entitled mosaic there is no progression without recognition of the road we've traveled the price of independence is great been paid in trails of tears dreams caught nightmare snare as a case of mistaken identity led to genocide via biological warfare and the remnants of a culture turn their red skin pale while their lives spilled scarlet stream silence screams siren through these mountains its echo grows faint while mother earth mourns the loss of her children trailblazing further west led to the eradication of our brown skinned kin drowned in a sea of bullets in the middle of a desert while americans marched to battle singing songs of this land is our land this land is milin from california to the new york ireland while 25 000 laid to rest on land in which they once called home in which their predecessors would be deemed aliens on all the while this manifest destiny transpired staged coaches voyaged along that old oregon trail with smiling families carrying melanin coated property white children frolicked arms unfurled around plantations while black children's arms unfurled as they were stripped from their mothers white women prepared meals for their husbands julian the potatoes tenderize the steak add salt and pepper to season it just right next prepare the fire for cooking while black women watch as their husbands are prepared for sacrifice julian the kindling pulverizes body kerosene will season him just right next prepare the fire for burning this this is the foundation of the american dream that turned horrendous reality where unjust justicisms further propagate the destruction of the disenfranchised through lack of resources and education which leads to increased crime rates and depression self-medication through narcotic and liquid inebriation the media stream this perception to the masses create propaganda-based sphere that justifies militarized policing in these racially and socio-economically segregated ghettos is that enough of a history lesson for us to finally get the message because the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do to not only survive but thrive because survival is no longer the key for i want to live in the pursuit of life liberty and happiness because that's what's been robbed for me by this lack of equality i got my hands up can we cease fire so we can think of plan up that's my desire so we can stop this system of oppression from functioning so normally because the depravity of humanity been weighing your boy down like gravity but i still got faith that this won't remain the case that we can all be the peace that we desire to see so we won't have to celebrate a rose that grew from concrete because it would have been planted in fertile soil from the beginning for we have never been a melting pot and never should strive to be but instead come to terms with the mosaic we are a wide array of colors and cultures with unique histories that need not be assimilated in uniformity but instead admired and understood for the only way we ever gonna make it to the other side of this pain is if we do it together for the brightness of your hue does not diminish the shine of my own the only limits of this truth are the ones in which we place on it because the truth of the matter is it is not our light but our it is not our light it is not our darkness but our light that most frightens us but as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people the freedom to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others so take my words as lyrical liberation they paint the sky with all the colors of my soul i see the beauty guy placed in you so come paint the skies with me too there's so much canvas to go around can't wait to meet you up there sorry for that mess up in the middle yo um but as as i'm talking about this idea of this mosaic it's it's that that final portion of the pieces is what's like so beautiful to me is recognizing that like we we live in a world of so much vast opportunity someone's vast opportunity for us to be able to not only create a better world but but to be able to to do it in an immediacy that that we can that we can finally begin to meld the the the patience and wherewithal of our former generations and and the urgency and the immediacy of now like i that that's the ultimate pairing that i see is as i look at people like as i look at people like james baldwin like like malcolm x like martin luther king jr like marcus garvey like these individuals i i look at them and i say you know what they they had something here and here that allowed them to understand that patience was a virtue that was needed in this fight and in this battle and they operated though as if change would come tomorrow and i think that if we can pair that with the immediacy that we have and hold today for change to come now in our in our global reach to be able to create impact and change i know that we can get it done without a doubt in my mind and and as i think about the idea of like looking up at the stars looking up at the sky it reminds me of the fact that all of these people all of the people in the world who have ever changed it in any type of positive fashion first originated as dreamers and this final piece i have for you is for the dreamers hello everybody my name is brandon leake and i've come to a very startling conclusion are you ready for it yes you i'm talking to you are you ready for it okay yes uh you see i brandon leak am a freaking fool i know what some y'all out there thinking hey yo brandon dog you've been like yelling at us through your computer screen for like the past like 27 minutes we already knew that dog keep up but you see i i wouldn't consider myself to be a fool at least half the time because i do know i have my foolish moments times which i seem like a five-year-old kid who's just running around the playground moments in which my youthful exuberance reaches out of me like tree branches full of life just longing to stretch out as far as they can but i'd also consider myself a very mature young man who's grounded in my convictions deeply rooted into soil and which i've laid claim to as my home so no i would not consider myself to be nobody's fool however this world would and does and for the longest time i've been trying to figure out why like why am i such a fool is it the way that i walk and when i talk to the fact that i have something in my teeth are you telling me something like he didn't nobody tell me man y'all messed up see see but i think i understand now the reason why this world does call me a fool i think the world calls me a fool because i'm a dreamer my mind is a galaxy and i am an astronaut untethered free floating across it taking with me the memory of every beautiful thing that i see because when i dream i dream real big y'all i mean i dream solar systems i dream planets of ambition moons of motivation for our stars to eliminate all these dark scars because when i dream i dream real big y'all sometimes to be you see this this world that likes to remind me hey yo yo man yes we want you to go out there and dream but please die that down a little bit okay because understand that that galaxy was meant for you to see not touch don't forget that you come from a people group that was considered to be too savage to be fully human so we made you three fifths they equal don't forget that you come from a neighborhood where you're more likely to have a baby at the age of 22 than you are a college degree don't forget that you come from a family where addiction isn't a surprise but in expectations of young men yes dear foolish young astronaut we want you to journey out but your oxygen tank wasn't made to embark on such a path there's no guarantee you'll survive so leave that journey up to the qualified you see you see this world it told me don't dream so big and at first i thought they did it to protect me for failure because i i don't know i i really don't like the idea of failing but you know i think now that i think now the the reality of it is that the god in these dreams are too large for their small mindedness i think that my voice is beginning to create anomalies and their constellations because me rewriting my legacy in the stars was never in their telescope a vision because i'm just longer for my shot for my chance my opportunity to show the world that i am more than what they think because if you ever dreamed of being more than what they said you'd be more than happenstance and calamities sloppy wet kiss have y'all ever wished have y'all ever dreamed have y'all ever relived these childish moments where this world was such a beautiful place instead of witnessing it past five through the eyes of subjugation because if this makes me a fool then you know what i'm going to be a fool 365 366 on a leap year 24 7 because on the other side of that sea of stars lies my dreams and i'm nothing but a little bit of hope but a whole lot of motivation so i guess it's time for me to unlatch and detach from this space enclosure so i can free float home space unbound because up there there's no ground to tread upon no marks to be left in the dirt just to hope that my inner light will be ready enough to show how far i have come and sincerely how far god has brought me because this poem is meant for those who drink [Music] so from a beginning of identity to inevitably discussing the problematic issues of my community to discussing a nationwide and worldwide solution base to the personal journey of dreaming what it can be i hope that you guys rocked with it i hope that these poems i hope that these poems were able to reach somebody and touch somebody today in a positive way um and i sincerely thank you all for the opportunity to be here today and uh yeah it was it was it was so much fun so much fun so thank you all and i appreciate y'all greatly wow brandon that was phenomenal thank you so very much um i had goosebumps um i can't uh i can't wait to watch more of your performances um but thank you very much for sharing this with us um after your seminal performances on america's got talent it's probably safe to say you've become a public figure do you feel like it's become more difficult for you to carve out a private space for yourself uh no i wouldn't say it's been too difficult to carve out private space just because of the way i carried myself on the show it's the same way i carry myself in everyday life i i don't treat myself as any different than the average citizen i don't treat anybody else as if they're any lower or different than i am i just continue to persist in being the person who i prided myself on being who is a humble loving servant and in that regard i get the chance to continue to be me everywhere i go oh very nice um on a broader level what do you feel we lose when you lose our private spaces what do you feel we're giving up when more and more of our lives are in the public eye oh man i think i think the unfortunate part of what gets lost is authenticity um as people you know move more in the public eye and out of the private space because people long to be accepted people long to be to be loved and adorned and they want to be able to be seen as valued and in our society nowadays you know if you don't fit a particular and in that regard i think that we have a lot of work to do in our public realm to be able to help people feel more comfortable and being their varied selves so that way we don't have to all fit within this monolith but instead that we can actually be who we desire to be and not just have to fit into this small mold sandy over to you thank you very much um brandon in your in your piece the love for your late sister your mother and your daughter comes across so strongly um maybe you could tell us a bit about what you think are the effects of race and racial discrimination within families and for families you know it's a very personal thing that we take home with us what does that what does that mean for us yeah i mean i remember growing up and my grandmother would explicitly tell me on a consistent basis pookie you gotta understand um you have to be twice as good to get half as much um and you've done nothing wrong it's just the way our society functions my grandmother um was a was a black woman who grew up in rural uh southern oklahoma um and for those who may not know the proximity of that that's in the south of the united states and she grew up in the back of the bus she grew up drinking from colored fountains uh back of restaurants um and things of that nature and to see the way that those types of pains have transferred from generation to generation isn't just in my family though that's also the same for the fact that there's somebody who has a grandparent who grew up on the other end of it who grew up on the privileged side of it who now passes down some of those very damaging and derogatory beliefs about people who look different than them and so racism and within our families um is a destructive thing that begins to rot people from the inside out and it only will be cured through generational shifting of one and love for others thank you thank you for that and um don't worry i'm not going to call you pookie but i do love the fact that we you know all of us have these nicknames that are very quiet in our families but so thank you for sharing that but um yeah is that you is that you wonderful wonderful this is actually the one i wore on the show oh okay okay so that is worth a lot of money isn't it one day that'll be up for auction um um in some part of the brandon league memorabilia at christie somewhere i'm sure um but you know tell us a bit about you know in in the piece you talk about how um your mother would ask you to please let her know when you got to your destination um you know when you were going out um and and that sounds like a very normal mother thing to say but actually it has certain tones in relation to that about safety and the fear we have for our young black boys etc because when they walk through out of that door it's it's not the same experience that young white men face and maybe you could tell us a bit about that and those kind of experiences because you talked about the destructive u uh elements of this can can you tell us a bit about how it you know that that you step out of your front door yeah uh it's hard to explain it's one of those things or when you're a part of the culture it's instinctively understood and known about the dangers that you face when you walk outside of the door um and the fact that there is a safety or perceived safety in being home i mean we look at a case like bringing a tailor and realize that you know and my mom was like oh wait or that when you walk out of this home that you say you love us before you go because you never want your final words with somebody to be something that you would regret um and i think that there's a keen understanding for her to know that if i were to ever if if i were to ever leave the home and the last thing she said to me was something in which she would not want me to hear um but she would be devastated by that and i remember getting that lesson at like five years old and so it's i don't necessarily know how to put that feeling or description into words it's it's really just one of those things where um the threats upon and we have to proceed understand that we're not promised tomorrow and whenever we walk out the door let's make sure that we leave wherever we were just at in love very very very pat we are not promised morrow that's where so leaving love i think that's a lesson i need to learn um as well and i'll take that with me um now you said you know you don't want to be uh just another another hashtag um but young people use social media a lot i have i have a young son he's a teenager he's 19 and he's never far away from his phone in fact i think it's probably glued to his his in the palm of his hand um but what advice would you have for young people about the use of social media and and ensuring that you know there are some boundaries and and make sure you maintain your privacy um as well what would you say to young people out there today when it comes to social media yeah when it even beyond just social media just technological advancements in general um be discerning in your utilization of it it is not all of what defines you um but it is the tool to be utilized for the sake of the greater good and entertainment i mean like youtube is fun like you're watching netflix and hulu all that stuff entertaining being able to see your home homeboy or home girls like this photo or video or whatever all that stuff is really cool to see um but especially when we start talking about social justice um make sure you're discerning do your google research and and check with multiple valid resources before you share something because we've seen especially over the course here in the states in particular over the course of the past four years the damaging effect of misinformation and utilization of it to be able to propagate and push particular agendas to voice that is real that people adhere to and say oh they're knowledgeable and not just opinionated because there's you can be opinionated and not be knowledgeable make sure that you're the combination of the both knowledge is so important right and and the internet has given us the ability to access knowledge in a way that um brings some equality if you do have the access to the internet and we could have that equality of you know trying to make our there's there's a lot of false news out there as well but we can we can be more discerning i think in that way now since you won america's got talent you've got lots of friend and fans and friends across the world i'm sure that the that the internet and you've been that have been exposed to you through the internet as well do you see what sort of things are you hearing from your international friends across different countries and and what sort of parallels are there that you can see because we we we're very global as a world now because of uh the internet and social media what what have you seen there what parallels uh can you draw from people from different countries who are your fans oh yeah um even even beyond just the fandom being able to travel a bit before all of this happened like i remember going to new zealand and getting the opportunity to to meet some of the aboriginal mari people and to hear about um some of the struggles in which they've dealt with in terms of representation within their academic settings right um like i remember the first time i ever really had any type of formal education about african history outside of like the brief moments of like learning about the pyramids same thing happens to them where you only learn about europe if you go seek higher education or go to university um when i went to canada that same issue pervade for their native american people their native people to that country who are now being ostracized in that same fashion um but also one of the most beautiful things too about it is the the disenfranchisement that they faced has and similar has in kind also brought them together in this fight for change the same way that we see here in the states which is an extremely beautiful thing um and so those parallels are of course easy to see um some other parallels that i see that are really envious of uh i have some friends in ethiopia and uh i'd be seeing some of the food that they make and i really just be wanting a bowl or plate that way i can have some of my house because i don't have access to some of those things you know food does draw people together doesn't it it really is something that we all we all bring our own cultures and with that comes our own sort of food traditions as well to the table in it that's one of the things that levels i think um everybody before i hand over to tammy he's going to take you through some questions that we've got from our audience um just i have one question of my own the arts really bring people together they kind of hold a mirror up to society they tell you things in a way that cannot be said in any other way can you just say you know very briefly because i'm fascinated when i've seen your work how you were drawn to the it takes a lot of guts to decide that is what you're going to do how did you within yourself know that you were an artist i would probably say the moment i realized i was a i was an artist in my younger days as a as a drawer i used to go walk down the street from my south side house um into this place called the maya angelou library and i would go check out henry um these dragon ball z manga comics and i'd get trace paper and i would trace the characters and have a super good time being able to like draw my favorite cartoon show um and then from there i started drawing them on my own and then i started writing the story lines for them and then i kind of stopped drawing because i wasn't as good as it as i hoped i would be and then i really started focusing on the writing um and then in high school i kept writing poetry but being a basketball head i really kind of just pushed that to the side for the sake of being able to focus more on you know playing sports and you know nuance wasn't necessarily a word that we we knew very well back in you know like 2006 to 2010 um and then uh but it was really in college that that poetry became or like poetry and artistry really became like on the forefront of my conscience um and it was really just a place for me to escape a place that i enjoyed being able to share who i was authentically um so yeah i would say that's the those it's it wasn't in like one i found out that i was genuinely an artist but instead um in these smaller moments over the course of time that revealed themselves so great thank you sandy thank you brandon um brandon your new father congratulations um the world your daughter will grow up in is definitely different than the one that we've grown up in um and i'm i've noted that much of your work centers around the importance of positive communities particularly when it comes to youth and upbringing how do we maintain the same positive support systems online and any digital space and what do you see or wish for your daughter the digital space is one that we can avoid like it's it's once it's a part of our educational process and educational systems it's part of any job that people are going into and what you have to interact with and be able to do so it's not something that you know we can just kind of shake our fingers and say no no no type of a thing we have to really embrace the fact that that's a part of our world now um but i think i think if i think i think if youth come to the digital realm with the discerning mind it'll really aid them in the process of being able to utilize it well because you know our social media platforms come with so much information as well as so much misinformation you know memes with unquote statistics on them that need to be fact checked and proven um so i think if i think of youth take the opportunity to be able to really utilize the world wide web and its massive amount of resource to be able to um seek out uh seek out objectively true information um then they'll be so much more embedded and emboldened by its its presence in our world um but i i guess the other part of that too is um i'd be a lot of pressure for people to try to fit into these boxes or whatever on social medias and so like i i also hope that it that the world wide web is not just an information location but a true source of community for some people um to not just keep it online but to also bring it into the physical world and even their genuine selves and not just have to put up a front for everybody else following on that um there are a lot of unfortunately intimidating words and concepts floating around the digital conversation today deep fakes drone surveillance et cetera et cetera in an ideal world what would our relationship with the internet look like the internet should be a free space for people to be able to to be able to share thoughts ideas it should be a a world in which people can find community in the healthiest sense in almost any regard um and uh it should be very much what we've strived for our world to be a place in which it's open um but i i don't necessarily know what the online community looks like outside of that because there have to be parameters to ensure the safety and well-being of others um and so privacy is very important um so i i guess in that regard i would say that the internet has to become a place in which uh can be a reflection of the of society very good very good last question um as we are getting close for our time here um from both your art and our conversation today we can claim that your neighborhood and upbringing involve violence i'd love to hear how technology intersected with your life growing up and whether you feel it exacerbated the instability or was it more of a refuge i grew up dial up where you couldn't be on the phone uh while you try to be on the internet um cell phones the size of bricks uh i remember when cell phones started getting smaller and then all the sudden everybody wanted a huge touchscreen cell phone like the way to 2010. um but i think technology impacted my neighborhood in an interesting way because um technology was utilized to be able to lock up and put away a lot of people who were just trying to survive and it was used to survey and um and demonize my community now being able to redeem and self-guard which we utilize technology for the sake of our well-being and the sake of accountability with the very people who are utilizing it to to then vilify us so it's a double-edged sword that we're now beginning to to get a better grasp of so both served to further instability but also a refuge and i remember those violent connections and the bricks that we used to carry around i remember that very well um well brandon thank you so much um we now have the pleasure of turning to mr ethiopis chiffora vice president and chief list legal and administrative officer at mega uh for closing remarks ethiopus thank you so much for taking time to be with us here today the floor is yours thank you tammy thank you sandy thank you brandon um and greetings everybody uh my name is ethiopia safar and i'm the vice president risk legal and administrative officer of mega and it's really a pleasure to join this event today i have to say it would be an understatement to say that this is unlike any zoom call i've been on recently and really a welcome opportunity to reflect reflect um but in all seriousness we've heard some very powerful themes here today uh shared with us in a really incredible powerful and personal manner um themes of identity uh the challenges in brandon's life and his community uh the challenges in our country and in our world and the challenges of social justice and continued racial issues but also the power of achieving one's personal journey of realizing and self-actualizing of what can be accomplished by pursuing and living our dreams in introducing the poem mosaic brandon challenges the notion of our society and culture being a great melting pot where everything blends together to form a single identity and i think the concept of a mosaic better captures diversity as it creates an image without losing the distinction of all of its individual pieces and i think it's important to remember that diversity is really about humanity and in this i'm personally guided by the words of uh the famous philosopher and somebody i admire enormously uh kwame anthony appiah when he says i am human and i think nothing human alien to me um finally as part of this day we've been able in this presentation we've been able to enjoy this experience on data privacy brandon has been able to share a fresh lens through which we can all consider data privacy privacy of our information as digital media privacy considering how and where we can share our personal data and to consider how data sharing becomes increasingly intertwined in our lives this is an important reminder that the manner in which we share our data can have an impact on what we can do later we've just discussed the impact that this can have in the context of today's youth who we need to guide and protect in this new frontier but it also applies to all of us across generations we must consider the tough balance between privacy and expression between sharing and protecting and we must understand it in order to protect ourselves and each other the world bank group collects huge volumes of personal data to carry out our development mandate and to serve our twin goals of reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity we have a responsibility in our professional capacity but also as members of our global development community and as engaged citizens um in closing uh i'd like to thank brandon uh for a powerful and thought-provoking performance and brandon we should have a separate conversation i'll try to hook you up with some good ethiopian food uh sandy and tammy for leading an engaging discussion with brandon and also to the dpo offices and teams across the world bank group who collaborated together and have worked to make this a successful day and last but certainly not least thank you to those watching for your participation in today's event i hope that you found it engaging i hope you found it informative and thought-provoking thank you thank you so much ethiopus um the wonderful words as usual from you um brandon thank you thank you thank you for the work that you do the art that you bring to the world i think that highlighting that the use of personal data in in these ways helps to broaden the conversation and as sandy mentioned um art can bring uh different views and different understandings of what we as humans experience so thank you for uh for your work i'll give a plug for you on you can find brandon's work on youtube um i highly recommend that you take a look um and also um look at his his website and his organization um so thank you very much um it was an honor to have you here we look forward to meeting you again hopefully in person someday um and as sandy said we will uh watch for the pookie sweatshirt to be um a hot item in the near future so thank you very much and enjoy the rest of your day