End Stigma

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[Music fades in][Animation: IU logo, text A Conversation With Tamika Catchings,  three cream and two crimson bars, and an avatar of Tamika Catchings animate on screen]

[Tamika Catchings speaks off camera]

My name is Tamika Catchings.

I am currently the vice president of basketball operations and general manager for the Indiana Fever. I played in the WNBA for 16 years. 

[Animation: Light blue transition, blue textured background, Tamika avatar, text “VP of Operations, General Manager” animates on and off screen, animated flame reveals Indiana Fever logo, WNBA logo fades on and off screen]

I got my start in basketball just really from being around my dad. And my parents figured out that I was born with a

[Animation: Large basketball transition, colorful background with shapes and wooden flooring, Tamika avatar, yellow box tv plays basketball game]

hearing disability. And fast forward to second grade,

[Animation: Large ear with hearing aid transition to school hallway, Tamika avatar with hearing aids walks the hall]

I remember getting made fun of, getting bullied, and the realization that I was different

[Animation: Tamika avatar in school hallway, purple speech bubble animates on screen, hearing aid fades in and out of speech bubble, thumbs down emoji fades in and out of speech bubble, speech bubble animates off screen]

than everybody else. I threw out my hearing aids.

[Animation: Light blue transition to trashcan in school hallway, hearing aids fall into trash can]

For me, it was like I really just wanted to fit in and be quote-unquote normal. 

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I went midway through second grade all the way to my freshman year in college without wearing hearing aids. 

[Animation: swipe transition to a blackboard with chalk and eraser, time line with text “2^nd grade” “college” animates on and off screen, text “Without Hearing Aids” animates on and off screen]

I learned how to read lips. It actually made me more observant as a person.

[Animation: text “A B C” animates on, mouth with bright red lips moves in speaking motion]

One of my dreams was to go to the University of Tennessee.

[Animation: Light blue transition to orange textured background, silhouette of Tennessee, location point fades in and out on eastern portion of Tennessee]

So, but specifically after seeing Pat Summitt, that became a dream and a goal of mine

[Animation: Fade transition to basketball court background, photograph of Pat holding basketball net fades in and out]

to play for her. Made it to Tennessee, and one day

[Animation: Photograph of Tamika and Pat fades in]

after practice, I remember Pat starts asking me a series of questions.

[Animation: Light blue transition to cartoon locker room background, speech bubble with question mark animates on and off]

When people can't see, what do they need?

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And I'm like, oh, they need glasses. 

[Animation: small poof of white transition to image of eyes with glasses]

When people can't walk, what do they need?

[Animation: small poof of white transition to image of leg in a cast]

They need a cane.

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When people can't hear, what do they need? 

[Animation: small poof of white transition to image of ear with red circle cross out]

And I was like, they need hearing aids. And she said,

[Animation: small poof of white transition to ear with hearing aid, pedestal and spotlight animate onto screen]

I think that, you know, one day your story will impact thousands, maybe millions of people. I think you should get back into wearing hearing aids.

[Animation: diagonal bar transition to colorful moving background, images of Tamika on the basketball court and doing volunteer work roll by]

Now, I wear my hearing aids and huge advocate, not to talk about disability, 

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but really like what are your superpowers and what are the things that make you, you?

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I know early on I wanted to be like everybody else. Now, I don't want

[Animation: large poof of white transition to school hallway, Tamika avatar, Thought bubble with silhouetted person in it which fades into Tamika’s avatar]

to be like anybody else. You know, my one word for life is impact. 

[Animation: Light blue transition to basketball falling onto wooden background, text “impact” is revealed as when basketball hits ground]

And we all have a choice, like, we all get to make our own choices. Do you want to make a positive impact? Or do you want to make a negative impact? Or do you not want to make any impact at all? 

[Animation: small poof of white transition, screen darkens, text “CHOICES”, thumbs up emoji animates rotation to become thumbs down emoji, basketball bounces on screen to change thumb emoji into a question mark]

And for me, it's really been about every single day, I want to make a positive impact on whoever I come in contact with, and that's really how I live my life.

[Animation: Light Blue transition] [Video: Tamika sitting in an office talking to camera]

[Video: fade to black, IU logo, Indiana University, research.impact.iu.edu fade in and out][Music fades out]

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Kari Zumach Descriptive Captions

[Music fades in][Animation: IU logo, text A Conversation With Kari Zumach,  three cream and two crimson bars, and an avatar of Kari Zumach animate on screen]

[Kari Zumach speaks off camera]

My name is Kari Zumach. I am a senior. I am in the College of Arts and Sciences, and I’m majoring in psychology.   [Animation: Grey textured background, Kari avatar, text “IU Senior, Volleyball Player, Psychology Major” animates on screen.

I play on the Indiana Volleyball team, and I am a right-side hitter.

[Animation: Enlarging volleyball transition to illustrated aerial view of volleyball court, IU logo animates on in the position of right-side hitter]

I’m from a town called Buffalo, Minnesota. It’s a town about 15 thousand people.

[Animation: Silhouetted map of Minnesota with vibrating location pointer on Buffalo]

I started noticing signs of anxiety and depression when I was seventeen,

[Animation: light blue transition to school lockers scrolls in background, Kari avatar bounces, angry grey rain cloud animates over Kari’s head.

And I would get so anxious that it would cause nose bleeds, I would get migraines. 

[Animation: bloody nose and headache illustrations animate in and out]

And I knew something was wrong, I just didn’t know what it was, and I didn’t talk to anyone about it. [Animation: thought bubble with question mark animates on]

I turned to substances, experiment with self-harm, isolate myself, just basically do everything you are not supposed to do. And so obviously none of these things helped my mental health.

[Animation: light blue transition to dark room with substances, crossed band aids animate on screen, door animates closed, screen darkens]

I had put myself on a path of destruction. 

[Animation: light blue transition to outside view of a house with Kari avatar inside, Dynamite stick animates burning detonating cord] [Audio: burning of detonating cord, pop]

My freshman year of college, when I first saw a psychiatrist, 

[Animation: light blue transition to psychiatrist office, Kari avatar and psychiatrist avatar sit in chairs, angry lightning cloud animates in talk bubble over psychiatrist.]

and then she confirmed it, and said you have clinical depression and generalized anxiety disorder, and then I

[ Animation: Large clipboard with angry rain cloud and text Clinical Depression Anxiety Disorder] 

eventually had gotten diagnosed with Bipolar II. 

[Animation: on clipboard speech bubble with parenthesis colon parenthesis representing bipolar disorder]

And then got on medication for that.

[Animation: on clipboard medication bottles fade in]

The first time I spoke out about my story people were really put off by it. 

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They didn’t know if they should treat me differently based on my diagnoses.

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After taking a little bit of time to understand it, and then people are like, hey, 

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can I ask you some questions about this? How can we help you if you are in this position again?

[Animation: light blue transition to outside view of a house with Kari inside, dynamite stick animates burning detonating cord, happy grey cloud, rain animates from cloud putting out the detonating cord] [Audio: burning of detonating cord, sizzle out as drop lands]

Now I’m older, and I have experience, and I’ve educated myself on healthy coping mechanisms.

[Animation: light blue transition to blue grey background, happy Kari avatar, grey circle with two figures and chat bubbles animate on to the left of Kari avatar, grey circle with notepad and pen animate on to the right side of Kari avatar]

Playing volleyball is just like the basic therapy as well.

[Animation: volleyball animates on from behind Kari avatar]

I was like, I am a Division I athlete. I can’t ask for help. I can’t ask for time off, because that’s not what good strong athletes do. 

[Animation: light blue transition] [Video: Kari Zumach sits in red chair facing camera, Kari speaks on screen]

But, that’s just the farthest thing from the truth, and you know, the more you ask for help, the stronger you get. So, I would recommend doing so.

[Video: Kari Zumach sits in red chair talking off to the side of the camera, Kari speaks on screen]

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Kenny Moore II Descriptive Captions

[Music fades in][Animation: IU logo, text A Conversation With Kenny Moore II,  three cream and two crimson bars, and a avatar of Kenny Moore II animate on screen

[Kenny Moore II speaks off camera]

I'm Kenny Moore the Second. Going on my fifth year with the Indianapolis Colts.  [Animation: Kenny avatar, Colts logo, text 5 Years animates on screen]

I play defensive back. I grew up in a small city called Valdosta, Georgia. At the age of  [Animation: location symbol appears on picture of state of Georgia]

five is whenever my mom signed me up to a Boys and Girls Club not far from home.  [Animation: avatar of young Kenny Moore appears on gray felt background, Boys & Girls Club logo animates on]

And football was the first sport. From there I played basketball and then it was T-Ball and  [Animation: Football helmet, green felt, a basketball, and a baseball animates on screen]

every year of my life I've been playing a sport. So I've never taken a break. In middle school  [Animation: older avatar of Kenny, spinning football animates on][Music fades out]

I wanted to, you know, keep playing baseball. But I was a little afraid. Because the baseball  [Music: organ playing Take Me Out To the Ball Game fades in][Animation: blue animated transition, baseball field, sad, young Kenny avatar animates on]

crowd wasn't like me. It wasn't like the sport of football either because it was two different  [Animation: 5 white young baseball players animate on screen]

crowds that played. And I could remember just asking the coach "What is it to play baseball?  [Animation: blue transition to green background, Young Kenny, talk bubble with baseball bat and ball, Adult white baseball coach animates on screen]

What all does it take? How do I get started?" They were like, "Maybe you should go run track. Maybe,  [Animation: talk bubble with track hurdle animates on for coach][Music: organ music fades out, music fades in]

maybe you should do another sport as far as your talents based. You know in baseball you don't run  [Animation: talk bubble with stick figure running animates on for coach]

too much. As far as hitting and stuff like that you probably don't have it like that." I wasn't  [Animation: blue transition to baseball field, a Baseball bat hits a baseball][Audio: SFX baseball being hit]

the best player but I was a fair player- I was a solid player to play, to play in middle school.  [Animation: Sad, young Kenny, talk bubble with baseball bat and ball and a question mark animates on]

It's not always that easy to stand up for yourself when you're in middle school and you don't really  [animation: White Coach with talk bubble with baseball bat and ball with a cancel symbol on top, 5 players animate on]

know how to feel about a certain situation because you don't understand racism at a point in being.  [Animation: blue animation transition to bathroom sink with mirror, young sad Kenny, thought bubble with white baseball player animates on]

I just learned like, you feel a certain way because of something, maybe it's you maybe it's  [Animation: brain and lightning bolts animate on screen.

them. But if you sit there and ask them, you know, what's going on or how can we fix this. It's all about  [Animation: lightbulb animates in front of brain, blue transition to green background, text Communication with arrow pointing to understanding animates on]

doing it the right way. Doing it respectfully. Trying to see what the person on the other side  [Animation: spinning football transition to binocular backdrop, talk bubble animates on]

is really trying to say. And I would say I feel like you should talk to somebody that you trust  [Animation: blue transition, adult Kenny Moore an arrow pointing to an ear, three x's, three x's encircled, animates on]

and somebody that's a good listener. Somebody that won't judge, you know, where you're coming from,  [Animation: blue transition to a living room, Kenny sits on couch, black man, talk bubble with thumbs up symbol animates on]

but will give you peace for how you feel. I think the best person in my life to talk to  [Animation: blue transition to blue and red leaf patterned background, Kenny sitting in chair, talk bubble with the coach, woman sitting in a chair animate on]

is my therapist. Just having a good listener counts and that's something that you should  [Animation: blue transition][Video: Kenny Moore sits behind a podium with a microphone in Colts conference room, Kenny speaks on screen]

really take into, you know, sharing your thoughts and feelings with.

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[Music: fades in] [Animation: text: "A Conversation With appears" as IU logo slides across screen, 5 cream and crimson bars slide vertical, animated portrait of Jeanne White-Ginder animates in along with her name]

[Sound: Jeanne speaks in voiceover:] My name is Jeanne White-Ginder and I'm the mother of Ryan White. Ryan was born with [Animation: Animated version of Ryan White animates onto screen, Jeanne's animation fades out]

[Animation: the word Hemophilia animates on]

severe hemophilia

and he took a medicine called factor eight.

[Background fades to hospital room, a needle appears and text: "Factor VII"]

Little did we know that the drug, we thought was saving my son's life [Animation: Ryan gets highlighted][SFX: choir singing heavenly note]

it ended it up being the drug that took their life. Because later  [Animation: Ryan and Backdrop animate out leaving black backdrop and needle]

we learned it contained the HIV virus. They took a two-inch biopsy and the results

[Animation Text: 1984 Ryan's Diagnosis, HIV + Factor VII animates]

[Animation: transition to hospital room, Ryan and Jeanne stand in, a animated doctor animates on and says, "Ryan tested positive for AIDs."]

came back that he had AIDs. And sure enough, in 1985, they started bringing in all hemophiliacs to clinics  [Ryan and Jeanne are replaced by small series of 3 other patients]

and almost 80 percent of them was all HIV infected.

[Animation: 2 doctors appear on a orange backdrop]

We thought we had all these medical experts.

[Animation: CDC and NIH logos appear]

We had the CDC, the NIH, we got all these famous infectious disease doctors who supported Ryan.

[Animation: Ryan appears between the doctors]

[Animation: Backdrop turns red, a upset doctor appears with a speech bubble with school and the cancel sign]

But local doctors testified that they wouldn't let their kids go to school [Animation: school changes to the medical symbol with cancellation symbol]

with Ryan and they wouldn't treat Ryan if he'd been a patient of theirs.

[Animation: TV static is the background with rows of red hands slowly moving on screen, speech bubbles with "How do we handle this?" and "How does it spread?" appear]

So the medical community was so in such disarray because they didn't know,

[Animation: screen shows red blood cells floating and a question mark appears]

about AIDs. You know, they were confused about how aids might be transmitted.

[Animation: Ryan appears in front of a school hall]

When he finally won the right to go back to school, there was all these things that he had a separate restroom, he had to eat off disposal, eating utensils, trays.

[Animation: a notepad with "Ryan's Rules," bathroom symbol, followed by eating utensil symbol appear]

[Animation: Ryan and notepad go off screen, a projector screen appears and the red blood cells appear on the screen, "You can't get AIDs by being near me." appears]

And he was telling them they don't, "You don't have to be afraid of me you can't get AIDs from me and how you get AIDs," and all that.

[Animation: grocery store backdrop, a cashier and Jeanne appear, money appears, and cashier says "Your change is on the counter"]

I go to the grocery store. See, people would take my money but in giving me my  change  they were like be so obvious that they didn't want to touch me.

[Animation: a house appears and crumpled paper balls falls onto its yard]

We had trashed stuffed in our yard. It was it was just it was really, really cruel.

[Animation: window in the house gets a bullet hole][SFX: glass breaking]

We had bullet hole shot through our window.

[Animation: chalkboard with a open book and full pencil cup appear, words "education defeats fear" appear]

He said, "When you don't know about something, you're going to be afraid of it. That's why we have to continue to educate people."

[Animation: Moving truck moves across screen, revealing grey Indiana, a location symbol appears on it]

When the rumors were flying that we were moving into the neighborhood in Cicero. [Animation: Moving truck moves across screen revealing animated house, 5 kids appear][SFX: door knock]

The first day five kids stopped by the house. They introduce ourselves to the Ryan because Jill [Animation: A gym with kids appear, one says "Let's welcome Ryan White!"]

Stewart, who lived three doors down, Jill went school and said, let's make Ryan White welcome here.

[Video: A picture of Ryan White in a school hallway appears, a famous quote by Ryan is on screen: "I'm just one of the kids and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves and believed in me" -Ryan White]

Kids need to be able to know that they can make a difference in other people's lives. You can [Video: Different school picture of Ryan in a hall talking to kids appear with same quote]

either take the bad road or get the facts and then spread, those facts.

[Animation: picture of Capitol Building is seen, text "Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (HRSA) appears]

He accomplished something. Through the Ryan White Care Act I mean he was able to do that. I mean, he didn't get the meds and

[Animation: stats about HRSA for 2019 appear]

the treatment but because of him other people are getting their meds and treatment and able to live long, productive lives.

[Animation: transition to a sunrise being looked at through binoculars]

I think with Ryan he wanted to look forward to what he can do tomorrow [Animation: Fade to black, Ryan and a thought bubble with drone footage of IU Bloomington campus appears]

or what he could do a year from now. I mean, he never stopped thinking, well, I'm going to go to [Animation: IU drone footage fades out replaced by IU logo]

1. You have to have dreams and you have to have[Video: animation fades to Jeanne White-Ginder sitting at home office][Sound: Jeanne speaks to camera]

a will, I think, to, to try to get to those dreams.

[Video: photo of Ryan smiling with date 1971-1990 appears]

[Sound: Jeanne speaks in voiceover]

You can't ever give up, and I think that's what Ryan's philosophy was be, never give up.

[animation: IU logo, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, research.impact.iu fades in and out][Music fades out]

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[Music fades in][animation: IU trident slides across screen, text "A CONVERSATION WITH KALEN JACKSON" appears, cream and crimson bars animate in background, animated depiction of Kalen Jackson appears]

[Animation: Kalen appears bottom left screen, Text: Kalen Jackson appears]

Kalen Jackson voiceover: I'm Kalen Jackson and one of the owners

and vice chairs of the Indianapolis Colts.

[Animation: Indianapolis Colts logo appears]

And I am a very proud IU alum.

[Animation: IU logo replaces Colts logo]

My dad is Jim Irsay who owns the team.

[Animation: Animated depiction of Jim Irsay appears]

[Animation: animated transition, animated depiction of Young Kalen Jackson on green background appears]

I was anxious from a young age.

[animation: a arrow appears, text: mental health story appears above arrow, Young Kalen fades away, present age Kalen Jackson fades in end of arrow]

That continued as part of my mental health

story.

[Animation: animated transition, a blue tv studio background and series of 10 news headlines appear about Jim Irsay]

As I got older, you know, growing up, everyone

knew who we were.

Our family was in the news a lot and it's an

just an interesting way to grow up.

[Animation: animated transition with globe, Jim Irsay is spotlit on a blue backdrop, text substance use disorder appears]

It's not a secret that, you know, my dad had struggled

with substance use disorder as it's now medically

[Animation: Jim Irsay and text animate off screen]

[Animation: Kalen Jackson appears and text anxiety animates on screen]

called, absolutely tied into my anxiety.

[Animation: rotating football animates across screen, text Colts and Indianapolis Colts logo appears]

But I think the thing about that is when you

are more of a public figure and in a public

[Animation: flashes appear on screen, Kalen Jackson appears behind a podium]

family, I think stigma is there in a unique

way.

[Animation: rotating football animates across screen, a red backdrop, a megaphone animates on screen, text stigmatizing headline appear]

I think that people tend to hear

the headline and not the story.

[Animation: Megaphone and text animate off, Kalen Jackson animates on and becomes spotlit, a text bubble appears with text "But that's not the whole story!"]

And I think that, that kind of ties into anyone's

mental health because I think that's what

happens.

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They hear the diagnosis and they don't hear

the person and the story.

[animation: white animated transition to a elementary school hallway, a poster with a sun and text "Welcome 3rd graders!" young Kalen Jackson, and a school bell]

I have been in therapy, since

I was in third grade.

[Animation: Text bubble animates, text appears "I feel so nervous!"]

I started having major anxiety then.

[Animation: Text bubble and text animate off, school bell rings][Sound effect: school bell ringing]

[Animation: animated blue wave transition, blue backdrop with text COLTS and Indianapolis Colts logo appear, Kalen Jackson animates on, podium animates on, text bubble animates and text "Public speaking is nerve-wracking!" appears]

I found I am definitely triggered by certain things that are specific

to me and how I handle that.

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[Animation: Kalen Jackson, a animated depiction of a therapist, two red plush chairs, a text bubble, text "Your voice is strong!" animate on screen]

But honestly, going through therapy and then

age, you learn how to process things, handle

[Animation: Screen transitions, animated gears appear, text "stressors" animates on]

stressful situations.

[Animation: Stressors animate off]

But for me, with my anxiety, it's a lifelong

journey.

[Animation: Kalen Jackson, text "anxiety" "Life Long" animate on screen]

[Animation: rotating football animates across screen, screen transitions to aerial view of intersection with traffic, Indianapolis Colts logo appears and shrinks]

You know, as the Colts organization community

[Animation: Text "community outreach" animates on screen][Sound effect: woosh text animating on screen]

is always a huge priority for us and I oversee

our families giving strategy, but we've always

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been very involved in the community personally.

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So many people I know are a daughter or a

son

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of someone with substance use disorder and

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have stories that are similar to mine.

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You know, unfortunately, there are a lot of

people going

through this, and

[Animation: text "This can affect anyone" animates on screen]

I think the more people realize that you aren't

doing it alone, there are people you can relate

to on this.

The better.

[Animation: Blue wave animates over screen]

[Animation: Blue back drop, a white male and black therapist sit on red plush chairs, text bubble and text "Vulnerability is the first step!" over therapist animate on]

What we really want people to understand is

being vulnerable is a strength.

[Animation: Text bubble and text over therapist animate off, a text bubble and text "I am ready." animate over white male.]

And that it's not something that should be judged.

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[Animation: light blue backdrop, Indianapolis Colts logo, text Kicking the Stigma, Kalen Jackson appear on screen, Kalen animates off screen]

So we really wanted to start off with the

campaign Kicking the Stigma and leading people

to the resources and actually feeling like

it's okay to ask for help.

[Animation: Text: 12 month prevalence of common mental illnesses (all u.s. adults) 1% schizophrenia, 1% borderline personality disorder, 4% dual diagnosis, 3% bipolar disorder, 19% anxiety disorders, 8% depression, 1% Obsessive compulsive disorder, 4% post traumatic stress disorder, animates on and off screen]

[Animation: Indianapolis Colts logo, text "Kicking the stigma, 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year, 1 in 6 U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental disorder each year, suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34" animates on screen]

I think normalizing these types of conversations

enable that to be just that, that it's part

of you.

And I think trying to find the strength, in

your

[Animation: Screen animates to green backdrop]

[Animation: text "stigma playbook," an X shape, arrow pointing animates on screen]

vulnerability is so important that I find

[Animation: Text "strength in vulnerability" animates next to arrow]

strength in the fact that I have anxiety.

I am a stronger

person because of the things I went through

[Animation: rotating football covers screen, revealing blue backdrop, Kalen, podium, text "Processing Triggers, animates on screen]

with my family, with my dad, with myself.

[Animation: plush chair and text "Going to Therapy," Jim Irsay and text "Normalizing Acceptance," animate on screen]

I would not change

those things.

[Animation: Kalen Jackson, Plush Chair, Jim Irsay, and text animate off screen]

Were they difficult? Absolutely.

[Animation: Kalen Jackson fades on screen, A circle around text "Vulnerability" that points to text "Strength" animates on screen]

But when I look at my life and I look at the

things that have made me better.

[Animation: Circle, Arrow, text animate off screen, rotating football animates across screen]

[Video: real life Kalen Jackson sits in an office with Colts paraphernalia behind her speaking]

Kalen Jackson on screen: A lot of them are really difficult things.

I overcame something, I proved that I could

do it when I didn't think I could.

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[Animation: IU logo, text Indiana University, endstigma.indiana.edu animate on and off screen][Music: fades]

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[Video/animation: “A Conversation with Ashley Howard” moves in and fades onto screen along with the IU logo and an animated depiction of Ashley Howard. Everything fades to white]

[Ashley and text appears Ashley Howard, Good Day Live logo appears]

Ashley Howard voiceover: My name is Ashley Howard. I am the TV host and producer of Good Day Live in Terre Haute  

Indiana and I am an alumni from Indiana University Northwest. I have always wanted to be in TV. I love 
[TV static appears and reveals a TV, Good Day Live logo appears]  

talking to people and kind of drawing out their stories listening to what they've gone through.  
[Ashley in front of news background, a picture of animated person stands in a park next to Ashley, a "live" bug in upper right corner, animated lower third appears "Ashley Howard, Good Day Live" text appears in speech bubble "Tell us your story!"]

There was an incident that happened early on in my career where I was overlooked for a position that  
[Animation: Earth swipes across screen, Ashley and text "BREAKING NEWS, NEW JOB OPENING" appear, a vignette encircles text as Ashley fades.]

I believed that I worked really really hard for. I had been working outside of the realm of my job  
[Animation: Earth swipes screen, Ashley appears, background with text appears: QUALIFICATIONS, ASHLEY HOWARD, Hard Worker, Adaptable, Experienced, Multiple Degrees]

description. Originally I was given recommendations by other on-air personalities and other producers,  
[Animation: Envelope with "Job Position" shrinks onto screen, Ashley appears behind it, an ON AIR sign appears, 2 male and 1 female nicely dressed appear in background, text bubbles and text appear above each, "She is stellar!," "She works hard!" and "Ashley's great!"]

and I ended up not getting that position, and instead it went to an intern. It was really hard
[Animation: Letter disappears, text bubbles and text disappear, Producers/Anchor leave, a puff cloud appears, a cartoon white female intern replaces Ashley, a blue wave covers screen]

to talk about at first because I tried not to jump directly to "they're being racist" because that's the  
[Animation: Ashley is in front of desk and HR Rep behind desk, text bubble and text "Can you tell us the problem?" HR Rep and desk fade away, zoom to Ashley's head, Ashley fades, "Racist," appears behind, screen turns black, cancel sign appears over Racist, 7 white stick figures appear]

first thing everybody wants to point out. That 'Oh you're just using the race card,' but the  
[Animation: text ""Race Card"" rises above stick figures and lowers again]

only thing that separated myself in a different category was that I was Black and this young lady  
[Animation: Ashley rises from bottom screen, white figures separate off screen, white intern appears]

was white. I had more education, more job experience, I had been with the company longer than she had.  
[Animation: white intern disappears, text "2 College Degrees, Years of Job Experience]

When someone labels you or belittles you because of the color of your skin there is no  
[Animation: Ashley shrinks, a diploma appears and smashes Ashley, diploma zooms, a TV encompasses it]

credential that you can have in your back pocket to possibly get them to look at you differently. Or  
[Video/Animation: white hand turns off TV, static covers screen, fade to white backdrop, cartoon eyes appear]

consider your application if all they've seen is the color of your skin from the time you apply.  
[Animation: text appears: Hard Worker, Adaptable, Experienced, Multiple Degrees, BLACK, text fades besides BLACK which rotates and is replaced by Cartoon Ashley]

So it's a constant struggle of do I stand up for myself and say that I know this is what's going on  
[Animation: text bubble and text appear "This is wrong!" text bubble and text appears above eyes "I don't know what you mean!"]

or do I kind of bite the bullet. Unfortunately in times previous, I bit the bullet. With this  
[Animation: Ashley shrinks underneath eyes, text and text bubble disappear, blue covers the screen]

particular instance, I just got fed up and I knew that this was wrong what was happening  
[Animation: Ashley, HR Rep and desk, and studio background appear, text bubble and text above Ashley "This is unfair! I deserve answers!" and disappears]

and I needed some answers and I was going to make someone stand up and give me real answers.  
[Animation: Text bubble and text appear above HR Rep "This is awkward..." and disappear, HR Rep slides off, Ashley slides left frame and envelope with "Job Offer" on it appears]

All while I was having this conversation I had accepted a job offer here in Terre Haute  
[Animation: blue covers screen and disappears to state of Indiana on white screen, location icon appears where Terre Haute is, Good Day Live logo appears, blue covers screen.]

Indiana to be the producer and host of my own show. When I was being told that I can't do both  
[Animation: HR Rep behind desk and Ashley stand in studio, text bubble, text appears above HR Rep "You can't..." and disappears, text bubble and text over Ashley appears "Watch me!"]

producing and hosting at the same time, I was also looking at listings from New York and LA  
[Animation: Text bubble and text "Watch me!" disappears, Ashley slides off bottom screen, Ashley, a blue California, and red New York slide onto screen. Text bubble and text "This is a must!" appear above New York, text bubble and text "Yeah!" appear above California.]

saying that you have to produce you have to host if you want to do these jobs. If I  
[Animation: text bubbles disappear, text bubble and text "I knew it!" appear above Ashley, and disappears. States and background fade to TV studio]

wouldn't have been doing my own research, I wouldn't have known that. So I would just  
[Animation: text "Believe in yourself" appear above Ashley]

encourage people to do your own research stay diligent and know that there is light at the end  
[Animation/video: cuts to live action shot of Ashley Howard
in a yellow shirt in her living room speaking]

of the tunnel. If you want it you can definitely go for it and don't let anybody discourage you.
[Animation/video: Fade to black, IU logo, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, research.impact.iu.edu fade on and off screen, music fades out]

Description of the video:

[Music fades in, A CONVERSATION WITH, IU LOGOs, JESSE EISENBERG and a Jesse Eisenberg avatar appear, 3 cream and 2 crimson lines scroll vertically through screen then goes white]

[Jesse's avatar, JESSE EISENBERG, a film clapper board and pencil appear on screen]
Hi I'm Jesse Eisenberg. I'm an actor and a 
writer.  

I started acting when I was very young. [JESSE EISENBERG floats off screen, screen goes white]

[Animated school building slides on screen with students out front acting]
I was in a children's theater group it kind of 
provided a really nice outlet for me. Going to [students fade away] 

[zoom into the school doors and an alarm bell fades in and rings SFX:ringing and ANXIETY pulsates above alarm]
School was just this incredibly nerve-wracking experience I would dread it

I was just living in a perpetual state of anxiety. [Bell rotates and moves of screen right]

It's hard for me to exactly pinpoint what triggers this kind of  
[an hand moves a "map of triggers" with Jesse's head and a line trailed with skulls leading to a red x with a treasure chest on it]

anxiety. But comes in moments when I'm supposed 
to feel good about something [Treasure disappears and Jesse frowns] it just feels like an  

[the skulls and map are replaced with and extension cord leading to the word Nerves and two lightning bolts] extension of normal nerves that you assume every 
single person on the planet has [Jesse's head replaced by earth] but it can get  

to a point where it does become such an imposition 
in your life. That it really does require some kind of help.
[World shrinks and NERVES grow until the world is the head of a stick figure and the less than sign is pointed toward NERVES]

My profession both is a great inducer of 
anxiety but also greatly cathartic.
[Film clapper board appears on screen and word CLACK appears]

On the one hand I have probably the only job in the world where 
you're required to go on a set full of 100 people 
[Hand places a camera and tripod on mid frame and a stick figure wearing a headset and holding a clipboard followed by two stick figures slide onto frame]

and scream and cry. That's unusual and that 
could be really cathartic.
[camera & tripod go off screen and a smaller stick figure gets spotlighted. a speech bubble appears saying "I'll get you Superman!" Lights turn on and director calls "Cut!" and leaves screen]

But it's also causes a lot of anxiety because you're in the 
public eye and scrutinized in an unnatural way  
[Crew member asks "What's wrong with Superman?" Crew members fade out and world appears left of frame with an eyeball fade in and spotlights the lone stick figure]

seen by people you don't know.

about 15 years ago I mentioned something in an interview about being anxious
[A camera appears camera left and stick figure grows and fades into Jesse's Avatar saying "I get anxious"]

[two envelopes slide on screen][Envelopes fade out]
After that I got all these letters from people writing to me saying how helpful it was for
[Dear Jesse Eisenberg, I also get anxious! Best, Loving Fan]

them to hear me talk about that. [Envelope slides onto screen and fades to white]  

and then I read something about a basketball player who said that 
[a basketball fades in and NBA logo hat appears on top of it]

he had terrible anxiety. So for me basketball 
players are like you know the gods among men. [halo appears above basketball] 

And when I read that that basketball player also 
suffered from anxiety panic attacks before a game  
[Background changes to textured red, podium and microphone appear in front of basketball and text bubble appears "I get anxious too!"]

[smoke reveals only a basketball going through a basketball goal] [a scoreboard showing HOME and ANXIETY in the 4 period score with one second, HOME gets 3 points at the 0 time] I just had the greatest sense of relief because I look at
 
[Jesse's Avatar appears wearing sunglasses on his eyes, the glasses grow and 2 Jesses appear in each lens]
basketball players the way some people might look at me. I mean it's such a cliche but I felt like not alone.  

[3 Stick figures appear on screen, the sun drops down with THE CURE written on it]
The truth is I, probably like most people who kind of have these experiences, 
there's probably not going to be one perfect way to get rid of it.
[a smoke bomb clears the screen]

However, I was volunteering at the 
domestic violence shelter here and it reminded me
[A hand places the Middle Way House logo on screen]

[Jesse's avatar replaces logo and his hat fades out]
that kind of getting outside yourself and 
helping other people really does work.
[A stick figure helping another one up appears above Jesse's open head]   

[Thumbs up icon rises out of Jesse]
Kind of just releases the pressure on that secondary 
punishment you know that guilt you might feel for 
[GUILT rises from Jesse]

worrying about yourself to begin with.
[GUILT dissolves out] [Jesse's hat fades back in]
So that's what's been really helpful for me.   

[Indiana map replaces Jesse's icon and a location icon appears on it]
Bloomington is the perfect place to get out of your own head 
by helping others. There are so many opportunities  

[Middle Way House banner appears and middlewayhouse.org appears underneath]
in this city to help other people and to me that 
is the silver bullet of solving

a lot of anxiety.
[Graphics cut to Jesse Eisenberg sitting on a couch at IU Studios office.]

[Screen fades to black, IU logo, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, research.iu.edu fade on and fade out, music fades]

Description of the video:

[Music fades in, A CONVERSATION WITH, IU LOGOs, RYAN NIEMILLER and a Ryan's avatar appear, 3 cream and 2 crimson lines scroll vertically through screen then goes white]

[Ryan's avatar appears in front of a brick wall]

So my name is Ryan Niemiller I am a touring national stand-up comedian [A spotlight appears on Ryan, AGT logo appears]

and I most recently season 14 of America's got Talent placed third place

[Map of Indiana appears, DE MOTTE and location icon appears on map]

I grew up in Indiana from a little town of northwest indiana called De Motte.  [A trailer icon appears with a pink flamingo in it and is replaced by a cancellation sign with money in it]

I'm an old trailer park kid. so we were poor and then obviously having a disability  like I have you know that's very different. Especially in a small town like that. [disability logo appears and then ripples]

[chalkboard appears and a beach ball hits it]

 But I learned when I first started hanging out with other kids, if I [3 kids fade in and one catches the ball]

can make the jokes first people leave me alone.

[Jokes = Safety appear on chalkboard]  [disability logo = Life experiences replaces the Jokes = Safety on the chalkboard]

It's super important for me to talk about the disability. I talk about my actual life experience. if you don't want me to talk about my disability 

[Disability logo tilts and slides off chalkboard erasing the words as it goes off frame]

tell people to quit staring at me. [screen of moving eyes appear]

Tell people to hire me for real jobs.

[Join Our Team, Now Hiring!, Apply Now, Jobs Available, Open Positions clippings appear over a colorful background]

Tell people to date me. If I have to deal with the negative

[Red background and beating heart replace previous visual]

[Screen replaced with word STIGMA breaking glass]

stigmas of having disability you don't get to tell me I don't get to talk about it. [Ryan's avatar sits on stage with a stick figures watching him, the AGT logo in the upper right corner]

I think a lot of people especially after watching what I did on America's got Talent they sometimes will have this false narrative that

I'm super positive all the time and everything's great and it's not a big deal.

You know it's not fun.

[2 bubbles and a glitching, rotating smiley face appear from Ryan's avatar]

[Smiley face pops into Earth]

In a perfect world I wouldn't have chosen this. [Earth slides vertical off screen]

But on the other side of that, no matter how upset I get about it,

I'm not going to wake up and not have this disability anymore.

[Text bubble appears above Ryan, "I HAVE AN OBVIOUS DISABILITY" bubble is replaced with "IT'S BEING TOO HANDSOME" 3 small text bubbles appear above crowd "haha" "Ha!" "haha"]

[blue and white transition to white screen]

So I had to decide a long time ago,  I could be sad and upset or I could

[SAD, UPSET appear on screen and cancellation symbols appear on both words]

[SAD, UPSET, get replaced by the word DIFFERENCE]

try to make some sort of difference.

[screen transitions to white]

Some of the ways that I get stigmatized a lot, usually if I go

[A grocery cart slides across screen leaving behind it a grocery store backdrop] out to just run errands people go out of their way to assist me but i haven't asked for that people assume that I'm gonna need help.

[Six smiling people appear on top and bottom of screen, 4 text bubbles pop up, and two more people appear one on left and right frame, two more text bubbles appear]

[screen goes white, a stick figure appears, a briefcase slides into his hand]

Getting hired for jobs people either wanting to put you in [Briefcase drops and is replaced with a broom,

broom drops and is replaced by a hammer]

positions you didn't like apply for because they think it'll be easier for you.

Or just flat out not hiring you because they assume you can't do it.

[Hammer drops and a wheelbarrow slides in and Stick figure falls into and is wheeled off screen]

[Transition to white screen, a red beating heart appears]

Had a lot of trouble with dating over the years. [DISABILITY appears over a now broken heart]

But like a disability is a hard sell for a lot of people.  And we are just as wanting of love and affection and we have sexual desires too. [DISABILITY fades, LOVE, AFFECTION appear above and below the heart, SEXUAL INTIMACY appears on the sides.]

My mantra that i use all the time is just power

[Blue wash transition]

[POWER THROUGH appear on a beach backdrop]

through because you don't know what positive things you're gonna miss out on by letting all of that overwhelm you.

[A sun with a smile and sunglasses appear mid frame]  [animated transition to Grocery store Backdrop, Ryan's avatar appears]

Even just getting out there and just standing up for yourself I think is important.

[A hand with an apple is offered to Ryan who raises his hand and NO THANKS appears]

If someone's offering you help and you don't need it tell them that. At the end of the day you know for better or worse you have to be the one that takes initiative of your own life. [Real RYAN NIEMILLER sits against a white backdrop talking]

[Screen goes black, IU bug fades out, IU Logo, Indiana University, research.iu.edu appear on screen, graphics fade out, music fades]