Voices that Inspire

What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is Jay Green. I'm the director of sales and marketing at Hotel Inigo, Tallahassee College Town. In 1982, I was born to a 16 year old mother that flew from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jacksonville, Florida to have me. And children home society was the organization that my adoptive mother saw me on the front of a newsletter, walked into their local branch and said, hey, I want to adopt this kid. Everything that I have done in my life and in my career would not be able to be done without an organization like children home society. So I am indebted to them for the rest of my life. What keeps me inspired every day is I have three children that are growing up in a world that they can be anything that they want to be. And it's because people that come before me that did the work. I spent three years as the director of sales at Hotel Duval. Hotel Duval is a historic hotel in this community that at some point, and for our listeners on radio, I am African American. Some point that people that looked like me wasn't even allowed in the building. And for three years, I was a part of that executive team that made that building successful and to push that company forward. Now proud of that makes me how far we've come. People that looked like me wasn't even allowed in the building. Now they have people like me that's running the building. And that's what keeps me inspired every day. Hey, this is Jay Green, director of sales at Marketing at Hotel Indigo, Tallahassee College Town. And I love public radio. You're listening to voices that inspire.