The phrase “talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not” is one that Emmy award-winning journalist Jane Clayson Johnson said she first came to understand as she sat on a Zoom call with four African students of BYU–Pathway Worldwide.

In this Zoom call, which took place approximately two and a half years ago, Johnson said she and her husband — both members of the President’s Leadership Council at BYU–Pathway Worldwide — listened to the four students’ stories, learning how the higher education organization, supported by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had “transformed their lives.”

“We were overwhelmed by (the students’) intelligence, their determination, their resilience and their faith,” Johnson said, sharing this experience with those gathered for the Tuesday d

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