“For me, mentorship is about really helping those that are coming up; giving of yourself; imparting whatever wisdom, whatever knowledge, whatever accessibility you have; really helping to bring those up. I now am not the young kid anymore; I’m fifty-one years old, and so I understand that now I am in this particular place. But there are those, my students, that are coming up, that are forging their paths—and I know a lot of people. So now it’s really my turn to help them come up, and to help them establish their platform. For me, I feel like it is a responsibility to do that, not a luxury, not my own personal want, but really my responsibility to do that. I don’t think I could go to sleep at night if I didn’t function as a mentor for a lot of people.”