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Earl Potts, a University of Texas at Austin Computer Science and African and African Diaspora Studies student, has been featured in several local media outlets after he created the app "Keep Austin Black" to provide Austinites with an extensive directory of local Black-owned businesses. 

Education is powerful — it's a means to inciting progress in the world, empowering individuals and transforming lives. Education's role in facilitating positive change is a major theme in Texas Computer Science student Dora Gurfinkel's life. She's so aware of it, in fact, that she is using her education to elicit real change within the university while paying homage to her family's unique history.