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Carmelo Montalvo: Medical Device Startup Exec Has A Heart For Family And Hard Work
BE Modern Man: Carmelo Montalvo
Medtech startup exec, NCAA football coach; 28; VP of Operations, Forest Devices Inc.
Twitter: @raulmontalvo_; Instagram: @raulmontalvo_
As a startup exec, I’ve been working to better the outcomes of stroke patients worldwide. At Forest Devices, a Pittsburgh-based medical device startup, we have developed a device called Alpha Stroke that can detect strokes in the prehospital setting, enabling the correct and swift triaging of stroke patients. Due to this increased efficiency in the triage setting, we can get stroke victims to the appropriate level of care faster, reducing time to treatment, ultimately reducing the likelihood of disability due to stroke. Stroke is the most debilitating disease on earth and with our technology, we can change that fact. We are currently in clinical trials and look to launch commercially by Q2 2020.
At Forest Devices, I oversee companywide operations at both the strategic and tactical level, while also managing the human resources department. I also helped lead Forest Devices in competing in the annual RICE Business Plan Competition (RBPC) to win first place and over $600,000 in cash and prizes in 2017.
I am also a collegiate football coach with the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) football team, an NCAA Division III program. As the defensive line coach, I manage more than 15 student-athletes across three position groups, while also serving as the lead recruiting coach for those positions.
WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF IN LIFE?
I am most proud of my family and the bond we share. Being a good husband to my wife, a good father to my daughter, a reliable brother to my siblings, and a good son to my parents are my greatest accomplishments.
HOW HAVE YOU TURNED STRUGGLE INTO SUCCESS?
My parents did all they could to provide for us. I had a great familial upbringing, however, we struggled financially at times. I remember days where the refrigerator was empty, and the lights were off. I remember seeing my parents grind, working many jobs to make ends meet. I used their example and the work ethic they instilled in me to get where I am today.
WHO WAS YOUR GREATEST MALE ROLE MODEL AND WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM HIM?
I have two. I am fortunate to have two loving fathers. My biological father taught me that my potential was limitless and that if I wanted it, I could achieve it. My step-father taught me to welcome hard work and challenge myself to always be better than I assumed I could be. Collectively, they taught me how to be a man in a world that wouldn’t be as kind as they were to me.
WHAT’S THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED?
Three defining conversations in my life yielded advice I’ve leaned on for the last 20 years, including in my vocations as a startup exec and football coach:
– “Remember, it is better to push a pen rather than a mop.”
– “Strive to be three times better. No one will be able to deny you.”
– “Death and taxes are the only things you’re promised. You have to work for everything else you want.”
HOW ARE YOU PAYING IT FORWARD TO SUPPORT OTHER BLACK MALES?
I have volunteered at local high schools as a mentor. I have also been working with my fraternity, Phi Beta SIGMA Fraternity Inc. on several community initiatives targeted toward young black males.
HOW DO YOU DEFINE MANHOOD?
I judge my manhood by my ability to provide for my family; by responding appropriately in times of adversity; and by being a man of conviction and reason.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT BEING A BLACK MAN?
I love the uniqueness that my Afro Latino heritage has afforded me.
BE Modern Man is an online and social media campaign designed to celebrate black men making valuable contributions in every profession, industry, community, and area of endeavor. Each year, we solicit nominations in order to select men of color for inclusion in the 100 Black Enterprise Modern Men of Distinction. Our goal is to recognize men who epitomize the BEMM credo “Extraordinary is our normal” in their day-to-day lives, presenting authentic examples of the typical black man rarely seen in mainstream media. The BE Modern Men of Distinction are celebrated annually at Black Men XCEL (www.blackenterprise.com/blackmenxcel/). Click this link to submit a nomination for BE Modern Man: https://www.blackenterprise.com/nominate/. Follow BE Modern Man on Twitter: @bemodernman and Instagram: @be_modernman.
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Chicago family files federal lawsuit against city for wrongful raid
A Chicago mother has become the latest to sue the city of Chicago, alleging police officers wrongfully raided her house back in 2015.
The federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday by attorney Al Hofeld Jr. on behalf of Jalonda Blassingame and her three sons, Jaden Fields, Jeremy Harris, and Justin Harris. In the suit, Blassingame blasts the officers for refusing to listen to her claims that they were raiding the wrong home and pointing their guns at her sons.
According to CBS 2, Blassingame alleges that this incident not only traumatized the boys, but has them still leery of police four years later.
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Turns out, the raid was erroneous.
Derec Bell, the man whom police were searching for based on a tip by a confidential informant, was not selling heroin from Blassingame’s home. Instead, he was already in jail some 200 miles away, and had been there for six years.
Hofeld said Blassingame waited to file a lawsuit because she initially gave officers the benefit of the doubt, believing they made an innocent mistake. But then she learned that the Chicago police department had a history of wrongful raids in Black and Brown communities, and realized like many others, her constitutional rights had been trampled on.
“These raids, these wrong raids, have been going on for decades in Chicago’s communities of color, and people have just accepted them as a fact of life,” Hofeld told CBS 2.
At the time of the raid, Blassingame said her sons were ages 10, 6 and 4. She said after police broke into her home, they forced everyone, including a cousin, to lie down on the kitchen floor and held them there at gunpoint for three hours.
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“I felt like, the way they was screaming and everything, if any sudden movements … I really thought they was going to shoot one of the kids by mistake, because the guns were so close to them and to me,” Blassingame told CBS 2.
Although she told officers many times that they were making a mistake, Hofeld said police proceeded to raid her house – damaging items, breaking toys and destroying other valuables. In the lawsuit, Blassingame is also accusing the officers of stealing her jewelry.
“They shouted profanity, and used abusive and dehumanizing language towards the boys and their mother throughout the raid,” he said.
Blassingame also said that when the officers failed to find any heroin or other items that justified their search warrant, they left the house without ever apologizing or offering up an explanation.
The ordeal caused her sons to become distrustful of police and Blassingame said they now demonstrate symptoms of PTSD.
“I’m just trying to reinforce to my kids that it’s still good cops that’s out here,” she told CBS 2. “It’s not all bad cops, it’s just that one rotten apple that spoils the whole bunch.”
At least 10 other Chicago families are suing the city for wrongful raids. CBS 2 broke the stories a year ago.
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“We are saying again, today, to the mayor and the superintendent: how many innocent children of color in Chicago have to be traumatized in wrong raids before the city realizes it’s too many? Enough is enough,” Hofeld said to CBS 2.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Giving voice to a student community with a “silent” identity
On a sweltering August day, a group of 16 incoming MIT undergraduate students gathered in West Lounge for “Identifying the Identity,” a workshop designed to help them explore their backgrounds and experiences as first-generation students. Presenter and MIT senior Tina Pavlovich neatly encapsulated a shared strength on an overhead slide: “First Generation/Low Income students possess especially strong determination, persistence, and resilience. It is the ability to overcome significant hardship that makes us uniquely driven. Remember that.”
That was just one of many takeaways of a new preorientation program sponsored by the First Generation Program (FGP). Known as FLIPOP (shorthand for First Gen/Low-Income Pre-Orientation Program), the six-day program aims to ease the transition from high school to college. Guided by Pavlovich and three other student counselors — all first-generation students themselves — participants became familiar with resources and opportunities, explored the MIT campus, and began to create an enduring community.
Beyond introducing the nuts and bolts of campus life, “we wanted to start them off at MIT by saying, ‘You are going to be OK.’ There are people here who’ve been through what you’re about to go through and have the backgrounds that you have,” says sophomore and FLIPOP counselor Tanner Bonner.
FLIPOP is part of a suite of new programs and events — from mixers to mentoring — that FGP is offering this year to increase visibility and bolster a sense of belonging among this population. “Last year, we surveyed our students to get input on how we can improve,” says Taylor Pons, FGP advisor in the Office of the First Year. “And our student leaders have really drawn inspiration from connecting with first gen students at other colleges. We are channeling all of that into FGP, and I’m excited about the changes we’re making this year.”
Navigating the “hidden curriculum”
First-generation students comprise roughly one-fifth of the undergraduate population at MIT. And yet, it can feel like an invisible identity, because some students believe that there’s a stigma attached to being first generation. “It’s hard to speak up about the fact that you are first gen,” says Pavlovich. Students that are also low-income may feel even more stigmatized. “Those issues overlap greatly,” notes Bonner.
“Many of our first gen students have overcome significant challenges just to get to MIT. They develop amazing resilience and coping skills, which is great. But once they get here, there are a number of issues they may have to navigate,” Pons says. “These tend to revolve around finances, academic preparation, and just figuring out how college works — often without guidance from home.”
“There’s also the social aspect,” Pavlovich adds, “like, ‘I’m hearing conversations about people going out to this restaurant that is very expensive that I can’t afford. How do I navigate that? Or, how do I make friends with people who I feel comfortable with if being first gen is such a big part of my identity, but it’s an invisible part of my identity?”
Another common theme is “breakaway guilt,” says sophomore Claudia Cabral. “The trouble is in navigating these in-between worlds. … You feel guilty for feeling like you’re leaving your family behind. It’s hard to dive in and say, ‘This is for me to build my career, my future, and I need to think of that right now,’ when in the back of my mind I always have, ‘It’s for us, it’s for all of us; my successes are your successes.’”
Despite these common experiences, a conundrum remains. “It’s a very interesting dynamic,” says Cabral. “How do you build a community with a silent identity?”
Catalytic conversations
Pavlovich, Bonner, and Cabral had the opportunity to probe that conundrum last February. They were among seven students who, along with Pons, attended a conference for first-generation students last February at Princeton, called 1vyG. The annual event provides an opportunity for first gen and low-income students to share experiences, forge connections, and empower each other.
“It was incredible,” Bonner says, from the deep, authentic conversations about their identity to learning what other colleges are doing to support first gen and low-income students. “That trip validated feelings I had about myself, about issues I’d faced. It taught me that I’m strong; I’m not weak. There are so many other people going through this. I want other people at MIT to know that.”
It was eye-opening for Pavlovich, as well. “There are people across the U.S. who are going through so many similar experiences,” says Pavlovich. “We may feel kind of alone when we’re on campus, but coming here we feel so connected. I realized we need to be able to talk about [our experiences] … this is what we could do at MIT.”
Pons and the students identified key takeaways from 1vyG and brainstormed ways to incorporate their ideas into future FGP programming. “Once the conference happened, there was enough activation energy to be like, ‘Let’s do this! Let’s make some changes!’” says Cabral.
Bonner, Cabral, and Pons began planning FLIPOP shortly after they returned to campus. In addition to plugging in practical information and fun activities, they allocated ample time to talk about being first gen. Those conversations paid off; one participant wrote afterward, “I wasn’t expecting myself to have such a tight-knit family by the time I got out of FLIPOP.”
Making the invisible visible
In addition to FLIPOP, Pons and the students are rolling out new FGP programs throughout the year. Inspired by discussions at 1vyG about intersectionality — the interconnections between different social groups — they planned two mixers in October, in partnership with the International Students Office, Office of Minority Education, and LGBTQ+ Services. Monthly family-style dinners and an open mic night are also in the works, among other events.
FGP is also piloting a peer mentoring program and has developed new training for faculty advisors, to help them understand issues first gen students may face and familiarize them with available resources. Meanwhile, the Office of the Vice Chancellor recently formed a First Gen/Low Income Working Group, co-chaired by Pons, to assess the Institute’s overall efforts to support first-generation and low-income students.
To help first gen students feel more part of the fabric of the campus, FGP has launched a sticker campaign, with a logo featuring Tim the Beaver wearing a FGP t-shirt and cap. The stickers are available to first gen faculty and staff — or anyone who wants to show their support. “If you walk by a professor’s office and you see that sticker, it almost changes the way you think about your relationship with them and what you might be able to talk to them about,” Bonner explains. He and other FGP student leaders will be in Lobby 10 handing out stickers and other first-generation swag on Nov. 8, as part of National First-Generation College Celebration Day.
“It all goes back to seeing an invisible identity on campus,” he says.
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