Today I interviewed Sophia Neubaum about her story titled "“UA Racial Debt Discrepancy Linked to Lack of Financial Resources”, which explains the debt that African-Americans experience in and after college and the reason why. She interviewed Cydnee Mathis, the secretary of the NAACP, and Barbara Lofton, UA Director of Diversity Programs. She explained what Lofton talked to her about, a group called the "tweeners", which are students that are 'too rich to be poor and too poor to be rich', meaning they are too wealthy for a Pell Grant but not wealthy enough to afford a loan. She told me that African-American women leave college with an average of $11,000 of student loan debt than white men. I really enjoyed learning a lot about Sophie's story and talking to her on the podcast. It was so much easier than I ever thought it was going to be, and super easy to edit.
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