Marley is joined by 3 student athletes from Bryant University who developed an organization based on needs they identified on campus through interpersonal and external needs for student-athletes. Be sure to check out the visual interview on YouTube https://youtu.be/y-2e2vbvAhY .
Marley also opens the episode with a motivational message challenging listeners live life with purpose. Below is a little more about each student-athlete featured in the interview:
St.Augustine, FL, a student-athlete at Bryant University, member of Football. I’m currently a junior, majoring in Business Administration with a concentration of Human Resources Management and minoring in communications and sociology. Co-Founder & Treasurer of W.O.K.E Athletes. Incoming IOLDP at Travelers Insurance .
Brianna Bruny
My name is Brianna Bruny I am a second semester senior originally from Miami,Florida. I am an applied psychology major with a double minor in Human Resources And communications. I am the captain of the women’s volleyball team and Vice President of Woke athletes. After I graduate from Bryant I hope to pursue a career in Speech-language pathology particularly in public schools to reach underprivileged populations. Vice-President of W.O.K.E Athletes.
Matthew Caruso is a Junior Student-Athlete at Bryant University pursuing a double major in Finance and Economics. He is from Brockton, Massachusetts and is the Co-Founder and President of W.O.K.E Athletes.
At Bryant, Matthew is actively involved in multiple different organizations on campus. He is a member of the Multicultural Student Union and one of 15 students on the student advisory council with the university president. He is also a Wide Receiver on the football team and a member of the Omnicron Delta Kappa honor society. Matthew will be interning this summer at Goldman Sachs in private wealth management in hope of landing a full-time position in that industry.
Words of Knowledge Empower Athletes = W.O.K.E Athletes to advocate, educate, and serve
Purpose
Woke athletes is to act as a representative body of multicultural and international student athlete’s community at Bryant University.
Woke is a student athlete organization with the mission to raise awareness and educate the athletic community on cultural issues amongst team cultures at Bryant University – PWI’s.
To act as a liaison to unify multicultural and international student athletes and the entire Bryant University student athlete’s community.
To help educate and assist the Bryant university athletics community in diversity issues.
Provide a support system for multicultural student athletes.
Provide alternative programming with the thought of better servicing the underrepresented student athletes, not excluding majority student athletes.
To provide multicultural and international student athletes for community service opportunities that represent the core values of the group.
To fundraise for WOKE Athletes and its causes as the discretion for the group leadership.
Provide coaches with resources and strategies to athletic staff to attract a diverse student athlete population.
To assist in the retention of multicultural and international student athletes at Bryant University
Contact W.O.K.E Athletes:
Website:www.marleneholmes.com
Instagram: @yupshesaidit @the_bfca_experience
