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Outside of class, with the help of his then-girlfriend and another good friend, Blanks co-founded the student organization SCOPE (Student Creative Outreach Providing Education\/Entertainment), which provided sociocultural programming for students and even brought Maya Angelou to visit campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor better or worse, SCOPE ended up taking all of my time,\u201d Blanks said. He stopped attending class to focus on the organization, to the detriment of his grades. 51ÁÔÆæ sent him a cordial letter \u2013 \u201cbasically a break-up letter,\u201d Blanks joked \u2013 informing him of his precarious academic standing. In 2001, Blanks left 51ÁÔÆæ without a degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So began the Lost Decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The hustle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After he left 51ÁÔÆæ, Blanks landed in Milwaukee\u2019s music scene. He worked as a promoter and manager for local hip-hop bands, and founded the hip-hop group Black Elephant. The band ended up on several Milwaukee \u201cbest of\u201d lists and played gigs like Summerfest, in addition to touring on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was cool, but it was a constant hustle,\u201d Blanks recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the way, he earned his associate\u2019s degree, founded a family business called Kairo Communications, and worked as a freelance journalist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Tired of the grind, Blanks left the music scene in 2009 and turned to social work instead. He did stints at the nonprofit organizations Public Allies and Safe and Sound before landing at Sojourner Peace Center, a domestic violence shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And though he learned a lot and gained invaluable experience, Blanks always regretted leaving 51ÁÔÆæ. So, in 2012, he went back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI made a pledge to myself: I\u2019m going to do it right this time,\u201d he said. \u201cI have this issue where, when I get locked into a thing, I get locked into a thing. I was obsessed. I wanted an A in every course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now he found himself in a different sort of hustle: Many of Blanks\u2019 credits hadn\u2019t transferred and he needed 51 credits to graduate. And so he did, finishing his journalism, advertising, and media studies major, and adding a major in African and African Diaspora Studies as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was so dedicated to his work that he even finished his math homework at the Clark County Public Library in Las Vegas on his honeymoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanks graduated in 2014 and immediately began work on his Master\u2019s degree in Media Studies at 51ÁÔÆæ, finishing in a year and a half so that he could apply for his doctoral studies at Northwestern University in time to start the fall semester. Now there\u2019s only a dissertation standing between Blanks and his PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Making up for lost time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since graduating from 51ÁÔÆæ, Blanks has been trying to catch up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much I learned from that 10 years grinding, and social services really shaped me. \u2026 But I look at where I think I could have been if I had just come to this maturity sooner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even so, Blanks has already made an indelible mark on Milwaukee. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mkefilm.org\/black-lens\">Black Lens<\/a> film program has been a boon to emerging Black directors and filmmakers, and it\u2019s given rise to other programs like the <a href=\"https:\/\/mkefilm.org\/culturesandcommunities\">Cultures &amp; Communities Initiative<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mkefilm.org\/cine-sin-fronteras\">Cine Sin Fronteras<\/a>. 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