Hey how y’all doing this Ricky say with mtmv sports y’all I’m so blessed to be here tonight for divine nine night it’s an awesome awesome initiative listen I want to talk to you today how you doing today I’m doing great excited awesome awesome can you introduce yourself to
The people watching yeah some Cami Mackey I am the EVP and she people diversity Equity officer at the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena awesome Divine 99 is a great Innovation how’d it come to me oh my gosh we’ve historically have had an HBCU night which was a
Combination of our hvcus and our divine nine the night was such a big success and when we look at our divine nine and we see the amazing work that they do in the community we said why not let’s have a nice specially devoted to them so we’re very excited tonight there’s so
Much energy in the air when you look around the arena you see all of the different sororities and fraternities wearing their paraphernalia just ready to see this stuff show we have a national anthem that will be song by Kappa Alpha Psi so we are very excited
Tonight look I saw the AKA that I saw um the Omega there’s so many there’s so much representation here tonight talk to me about the creation of this atmosphere yeah so in order to create this night we came together we also partnered with the uh the Greater Atlanta panhellenic
Council and they worked with our group our internal team to really talk about what are some fun elements that we could do tonight to just make it a great success so you’ll see some of that one of them is a Czech presentation a scholarship fifty thousand dollars that
The Atlanta Hawks and partnership with State Farm will be presenting for students that are in the Divine night to have Gap scholarships and GAP scholarships or earnings money basically for students that are just in need of that little extra that their tuition you know the the other scholarships may not
Have covered in order to help them graduate way so we’re really excited tonight to be able to highlight the great work of the Divine mind I love it I love it listen so many great Innovations so far what’s happening in the future with the Atlanta Hawks oh my
Gosh you got to come back out in February we have a lot planned we’ll have our hvcu night uh we’ll have some new fun elements that we haven’t done before so come on back out and check us out we love it thank you so much I appreciate you Thank you Thank you
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