08/28: More "I Want to Work for Diddy" Features: Boris "Can Do" Kuperman, Laverne Cox and Mic Barber
InsideNova.com has a feauture on Boris "Can Do" Kuperman from "I Want to Work for Diddy." It has a unique twist in that it was written by someone who held a leadership role in a camp Kuperman attended when he was in ninth grade.
I wanted him sent home after the first week. He picked fights, slept in, skipped activities and spent all his time at the basketball courts.
Sending him home was not an option, my supervisor told me. Boris didn't exactly have a happy home life and camp was the only place where he could find success.
We thrust Boris into some leadership roles, gave him some opportunities to work for (he really wanted to deejay a camp dance). There were certainly some bumps along the way, but by the end of the summer, Boris was one of my favorites. He was funny, had an endearing honesty to him and, when given the right kind of positive reinforcement, had moments where he was a model camper.
Meanwhile,
Shari Logan at the New York Post has a quick feature on Laverne Cox and Mic Barber.
"No one came from where I came from and nobody has the hunger I have," Barber says.
"If I can bring anything to the Bad Boy empire, I want to bring a motivated, strong person where he [Diddy] could say, 'Mic Barber is on his grind, and ya'll need to do the same.' "
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