From the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant.

The University of South Carolina Upstate invited me to give the 2025 Johnson Innovation Speaker Series talk at the George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics. My topic was Making America AI-Ready: Literacy and Ethics for Every Learner.
I talked with students and the community about the opportunity in an AI-driven economy and why financial literacy is the foundation for seizing it. The full talk is below.
University of South Carolina Upstate, November 19, 2025.