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"At my first job interview, I said, 'You have to be better than your circumstances every day.' I don’t know where that came from, but it’s become a personal truth. We expect that mindset from our students, so we must live by it ourselves. It’s easy to lead on the good days. What matters most is how you show up when the world is spinning, and it will spin. That’s when you define who you really are."
— Spotlight Interview with the Milken Family Foundation
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John Melandro (NY '24)
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