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This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

My dad was a preacher.

Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

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