'We tell kids they can be anything but often times if you can't see it, it's hard to be it,' Dr. Michael McFarland said. 'So, I think it's important for people that look like me to be in leadership roles.'
"We tell kids they can be anything but often times if you can't see it, it's hard to be it," McFarland said."So, I think it's important for people that look like me to be in leadership roles."
As a child McFarland started playing football and thought he wanted to be a football coach or an athletic director, but one conversation changed that."Ms. Marva Cauley, she sat me down and asked me what I wanted to do, and in high school I didn't know. But what I told her was I want to do what you're doing."
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