Tone and Larry talk to Mike Brown about his becoming the first black student to serve as the iconic Notre Dame Leprechaun mascot. Mike also updates his fans on what he’s been up to since his ND Days.
More about Mike:
Mike Brown is an invigorating force for good focused on enriching lives.
He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, where he served for two years as the iconic Notre Dame Leprechaun mascot – the first Black student to portray the role. His career spans more than two decades of experience at FIS as a computer programmer and IT sales executive and at the University of Notre Dame as a development officer.
Mike is the Founder and CEO of SOULSTIR (https://soulstir.co/) an enterprise focused on social impact through books and more, and he is a Partner at For Impact, a company that helps social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders change the world.
He is the author of two children’s books: Little Netta’s Gift, based on a true story about his late cousin, Little Netta, and her spirit of kindness and giving, and The Leprechaun’s Game Day at Notre Dame, which describes the pageantry of a football Saturday at ND.
Mike enjoys running, public speaking, and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Originally from Milwaukee, he now lives in the South Bend area with his wife and daughter.
Welcome to the ScholarChip$ podcast hosted by Larry Alexander and Tone Gaines. Larry is a transactional attorney at a Fortune 100 Company. Tone is a Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions attorney at a large law firm in Chicago. But more importantly, both Larry and Tone are Black Men from the inner city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The duo started ScholarChip$ to (1) create a platform to have candid conversations with scholars and (2) normalize academics as a viable way to achieve upward mobility in Black and Brown communities.
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