Trevor Barrant
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“Creativity is something I value to the highest degree. Music was always something, in my family, that was super big. Like I said, I grew up in church, black church, music is the thing. So I was always doing music, I love music, I listen to music all the time. I love art, too. I can’t draw, I can’t paint, but I appreciate it. What I want to be able to do is give kids the opportunity to cultivate that. For me, what I notice…especially even going here and observing certain things is that even though…nobody is necessarily making anybody do anything. But because of the social norms that we have a lot of people are in mental cages and I feel like I was in a mental cage for awhile, thinking I had to live a certain way. ”Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Trevor Barrant, a senior at Harvard College, for another episode of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast.Hosted by David Chen Produced by Mira Becker and Chelsea Guo Design by Meiyi Yan Music by Alex Youn
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