-: I think intercultural fluency, or just cultural
proficiency, is the most important thing out there,
especially in the environment
that we are in right now in 2018.
For me to be able to work with an all Spanish speaking
news organization and understand that I would
need a translator, just without even having to
think about it, you know, I feel like I'm at that point
where I'm very proficient in that,
or when I was an entertainment director of
Come Out With Pride, knowing that,
though I'm hard of hearing, so I know that we've got
a great deaf community here in Orlando,
so I need to get some of our ASL people.
So that's a highly marketable skill of being proficient
in what's happening in the world around you,
and for me, the less informed an individual seems,
the less likely I am to work with them,
I mean mostly because I am an activist myself.
But I think that that is the absolute number one
most important thing that students need to understand,
is they have to be informed whether it's with
their own industry, whether it's with, you know,
different cultures, like, that to me
is the number one most important thing.