Zellnor Myrie: “Young people generally don't have the opportunity to serve…”

“So tell us about your journey of how you made it to the Senate at such a young age. What was your pathway there? Yeah. And you know, it is unconventional in the sense that Young people generally don't have the opportunity to serve in elective office. So I'm always grateful that I was exposed to this at the age that I was. I born and raised in my district. You heard some of the neighborhoods in central Brooklyn.” (04:28–04:39)

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