Yusuf Henriques
An inspirational 4th of July episode that will make you think. A Jamaican-born immigrant, our Living Legend describes what happens when access and opportunity are given to young people. A sharp reminder of the folly of the recent Supreme Court ruling which killed Affirmative Action social justice policies.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IndyGeneUS AI & IndyGeneUS Global (pronounced indigenous) a precision genomics company aiming to create the world’s largest blockchain-encrypted digital health platform of indigenous and diasporic African clinical and genomic data.
Count Time Podcast Living Legend Yusuf Henriques
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview with Visionary Yusuf Henriques
I like to welcome welcome to Count Time. Yusef Henriques. Welcome to Count Time.
YH
Appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
LD
Now, this brother here, you have to give us a lot of information because you all going to hear it in his voice once he starts speaking, where he’s originally from, but he’s doing some big things, and he’s not from Louisiana. You grew up where?
YH
I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. I spent my early, younger years there and then got the pleasure coming to the US as a teenager to go to high school, where my dad was living in Florida. South Florida. huge population of first and second generation Jamaicans, kind of that’s where they migrate to if they don’t like the cold weather in New York.
So my dad, Joseph, came as a machinist for the MPA, the trains in New York, they were hiring a lot of smart machinists out of the islands. And so my dad came here as one of the engineers that worked on a train in New York. But, yeah, it was too cold. So he decided to migrate down to Fort Lauderdale, be back to our natural roots, sun and beaches.