The Importance of Mentorship

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Robert Greenberg gave a 19 year old black kid from Englewood with no college education opportunity to design shoes for his company. "He didn't discriminate against me. He just saw someone with talent that he wanted to leverage," she says of the white Jewish man who was her first professional mentor. 'If it wasn't for Robert seeing just raw talent and challenging me to elevate up in this environment'

Over the course of his storied career as a designer and educator, Dr. D’Wayne Edwards has created more than 500 footwear styles for premier entertainers such as Tupac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, and Notorious B.I.G. His designs have been worn in six Olympics and graced all MLB, NFL, and NBA stadiums. He joins to talk about his remarkable career and current role as President of Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design.