MLK Leadership Award Winner Natalie Petit

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[MUSIC] Community-building is something that is ingrained in me. It is something that I went to school for. And it's something that I also want to always see that you do not feel left out. I remember back in high school I was class president, and I didn't have a clique to be a part of, but I knew everyone and everyone knew me. And that is where I want to make sure that you realize-- I think of Maya Angelou's quote who says, "People may forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." She doesn't think of herself alone. She thinks of the whole community. So whatever she can do to help students, co-workers, she's there. With the pandemic and with everything, it was such a difficult year. So I really think that Natalie, with all the work she did, deserves this award. And I want you to know that whether I'm a part of your community or whether I'm a part of your office or part of your committee, the aura and the feeling is of warmth, and that it is a place where everyone is seen and heard. And so when it comes to MIT as a whole, when I put MIT and community next to each other, it goes back to Martin Luther King's speech where he says, "America, all I can say is be true to what you said on paper." So we cannot act in a performative way whenever we see injustice anywhere. We cannot act in terms of when it's Martin Luther King Day and that is when we remember that there is injustice everywhere. We cannot be an actor of change. We have to actually do the change, be the change, live the change, and see the change. [MUSIC]
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Channel: MIT Video Productions
Views: 71
Rating: 5 out of 5
Keywords: MIT, video, education, science, math, business, robotics, massachusetts, institute, of, technology, school, college, university
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Length: 2min 6sec (126 seconds)
Published: Thu Jun 17 2021
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