“For me, education was a pathway. . . so I feel like I have to do for others what was done for me. I got by on hope, hustle, and help. That help didn't just show up out of the blue, so I have to do the same thing.”
— Hakeem Oluseyi
Hakeem Oluseyi Inspires Mason Students with “Hope, Hustle, and Help”
Professor Hakeem Oluseyi—an astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and humanitarian—attributes his unlikely rise from the pull of poverty and crime to his determination and the help of people around him, and he wants to pay it forward.
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