Andrew Yang
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
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Andrew Yang, entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, non-profit leader, former 2020 presidential candidate, and a 2021 New York City mayoral candidate joins Sophia today to discuss his experience growing up in New York, what it’s like having immigrant parents, what he loves most about NYC, how he balances his life as a father and a politician, and what he’s learned working in nonprofits advocating both for the people and for better education policy. Andrew and Sophia have worked together on activist causes in the past, including the organization “Defeat By Tweet” and the initiative, “Win Both Seats.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome back to work in progress. |
| 0:14.3 | Today I'm speaking with entrepreneur, author philanthropist and non-profit leader Andrew Yang. |
| 0:19.6 | Andrew first came to prominence in many people's minds during the 2020 presidential election, |
| 0:24.8 | where he ran for president on a platform of universal basic income. His innovative ideas have |
| 0:29.5 | inspired people all over the country and the world, and we are now seeing UBI programs launching |
| 0:35.0 | all across the nation. Born and raised in New York, Andrew has been a champion for education |
| 0:39.8 | and progress his entire life. In 2009, he started venture for America, which has worked to |
| 0:45.6 | empower thousands of young entrepreneurs across the country. He was named presidential ambassador |
| 0:50.3 | of entrepreneurship by the Obama administration and a champion of change. In the last year, Andrew |
| 0:56.8 | founded Humanity Forward, a non-profit organization which has provided over a million dollars in |
| 1:01.9 | basic income grants to New Yorkers struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And now he's trying |
| 1:07.7 | to continue that work by running for mayor of New York in the 2021 election. Andrew and I have also |
| 1:12.9 | had the pleasure of working together on some great activist causes over the years. We helped to create |
| 1:18.3 | an organization with a bunch of other incredible activists called Defeat by Tweet to use Donald Trump's |
| 1:24.0 | cruelty on social media against him to raise political capital and funds for local organizations |
| 1:30.2 | that were run by incredible black activists across America. And during 2020 and into the Senate |
| 1:36.0 | runoffs, we worked together on a program called Win Both Seats to ensure that John Ossoff and Raphael |
| 1:42.2 | Warnock got elected in Georgia and that we could take back the Senate and get this American rescue |
| 1:47.7 | plan going. Very exciting stuff. It's been so much fun to work with Andrew behind the scenes to |
| 1:54.1 | witness his advocacy on the national stage and on today's episode, it was such a pleasure to talk |
| 1:59.4 | to him about everything from personal to professional to political. We discussed what it's like having |
| 2:05.6 | immigrant parents. His experience growing up in New York, in a Taiwanese family, what he loves most |
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