Ibert Shultz of Black College Success: 5 Things I Wish I Knew When I First Started

Progress is nonlinear — and often invisible.

Relationships are everything.

Scarcity is a structural problem, not a personal failure.

Institutional buy-in doesn’t equal institutional change.

The small wins are the work.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Ibert Shultz.

Ibert Schultz is the Executive Director of Black College Success, a college-access and career success initiative dedicated to increasing opportunities for African American students in South Los Angeles through higher education.

Schultz brings more than a decade of experience from the public and private sectors to this initiative. Previously, he has held senior roles at the Los Angeles City Council and Los Angeles Board of Supervisors where he focused on a diversity of policy issues and strategic matters. Schultz has also worked at a fast-growing venture-backed Silicon Beach start-up.

After beginning his career as an associate at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York, Schultz served in the Obama Administration at The White…