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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. 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As I Am_ by [Sophie Butcher](https://time.com/author/sophie-butcher/) ## Sophie Butcher Mar 21, 2013 8:00 AM UTC As I Am by [Sophie Butcher](https://time.com/author/sophie-butcher/) ## Sophie Butcher Mar 21, 2013 8:00 AM UTC In 2011 Christopher Dean, a senior at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, stood with his classmates at a graduation rehearsal. Someone on stage called his name and asked him to come up. “I shivered in my boots,” Chris remembers. He wondered what he could have done wrong. He walked to the stage and was shown a seat with his name on it. As he sat down, he was told that he would be introducing President Barack Obama at graduation, and that he’d be sitting at the president’s side during the ceremony. Chris had only two rehearsals and three days to prepare his speech. His first reaction was to seek help from the school’s basketball coach, Coach Hunter, who was known as something of a poet in the school. They spoke extensively and decided to craft a poem together. A few days later, Chris showed the poem to his principal, Ms. Kiner, who read it, smiled and threw it in the garbage. “It’s good,” she said, “but it’s not you. I want to hear _you_ speak.” Together, they produced a sincere and personal introduction, one that ultimately garnered Chris national attention, a scholarship to Lane College and internships at the White House and a Memphis newspaper, _The Commercial Appeal_. During his internship at the paper Chris met photojournalist [Alan Spearman](http://www.alanspearman.com/), who has been working for _The Commercial Appeal_ for 15 years. The United States census had recently named Memphis the poorest city in the country, and the editors called a meeting to pitch ideas on how to best document their city’s dire poverty. Alan had explored the streets of Memphis through his lens. Chris grew up in the projects of South Memphis; by the time he was 5 he’d lost his father — 20 bullets to the chest in a gang shootout. They both understood what “poverty” really meant in Memphis. It didn’t take long for the two to start their own project. The very first afternoon Alan and Chris set out together to begin work, it was a broiling summer day. They saw a shirtless elderly man collecting cans. “That’s Lonzo,” said Chris. Every time Lonzo dropped a can into his plastic bag, another one would fall out of hole at the bottom. Alan took a photograph, and Chris wrote: “Ten cents a can is what the old man is saying, without saying, but hard work don’t pay off if you keep dropping cans. Too much pride to hold at his hands. Ten cents a can is what the old man is saying, without saying.” This, their first collaboration, helped form the foundation of the film. They spent a total of eight weeks on foot, documenting South Memphis. “For me,” Chris says, “this was just like walking through normal life. But Alan taught me how to see things differently. I started to imagine what it was like to know nothing about the streets and thought, _What do I need to show people?_ I imagined being in a car and speeding by this city … This project was about stepping out of the car, taking the time and getting closer.” The result of their collaboration, a 12-minute film — at-once impressionistic, gritty and gorgeous — is called _As I Am_. Its rich collage of imagery, music and poetry interweaves Chris’s thoughts with the voices of other men and women encountered during filming. The remarkable story behind the making of the film, as well as the film’s beauty, has drawn accolades; for instance, it was voted one of [Vimeo’s top twelve films of 2012](http://vimeo.com/blog/post:539); it has been viewed more than 100,000 times since it went online. The language in the film is striking and deeply connected to Chris’s life and his dreams. The chilling, reoccurring line, “afraid of the future,” comes from a poem Chris has worked on since he was in 10th grade, and was Chris’s original working title for the film. Another memorable line, “when your stomach is touching your back, your stomach is touching your back,” was something his uncle said one afternoon as they sat on his porch and he explained why he had to sell his car. The soundtrack, meanwhile, is firmly rooted in the South, with songs provided by young local singers such as Kevione Austin and Ladrecus White, who goes by Drako, as well as the blues great Blind Mississippi Morris. The film was scored by two Memphisites, Paul Taylor and Sean T Faust. “Pain has come all the way from Africa, through the Caribbean, the Mississippi Delta and into Memphis, and as a result the city has created music that has influenced the world,” Spearman says. Today, Chris understands the effects he can have on his community and returns to South Memphis as an inspiration. “My people and my friends need more than apples and bread,” Chris says. “They need guidance and a role model who can say, _I am from where you’re from, I grew up here too, and if I can do it so can you_. I can be their hope.” After our conversation, he was going to teach someone who appears in the film and who spends most of his time “on the block” how to apply to Lane College. “He didn’t want to go to any other college,” Chris says. “He wants to go where he knows he has friends.” Chris explained that this is a problem most of his friends face; just like they fear leaving their neighborhood, risking getting beat up, they fear leaving for college without a support system. “It makes sense he wants to go where I am, but I am going to go back and tell him not to be afraid to try something different.” The final version of the short, powerful film Alan and Chris made achieves far more than merely showing “poverty in Memphis”; it is a deep, at-times raw reflection on human survival, and an homage to a wounded city. When I ask both Alan and Chris whether they would like to live in South Memphis despite the hardships, they both laugh. “There’s nothing like home,” says Chris, who is currently based in Jackson, at Lane College. “I won’t be gone too long from this place.” --- **_Chris Dean_** _is currently in his sophomore year at Lane College and helping_ [**_Alan Spearman_**](http://www.alanspearman.com/) _produce the upcoming film_ Ground_, a collaboration between Alan and renowned director Craig Brewer._ **_Mark Adams_** _is the co-producer of_ **_As I Am_** **_._** [_Visit The Commercial Appeal for more on ‘As I Am’_](http://www.commercialappeal.com/as-i-am/)_._ --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Imagine your dream, see what you've been through, think about yourself. [ MUSIC ] Where you going? Where you from? Think about the dreams you've had, the nightmares you've had. I used to have nightmares, that I would get stuck in the storm drain. People would walk past me for days and leave me down there. And I will see, and hear everything. I will see people selling them bad drugs, folks fighting, hookers, hustling, street life. My hands and arms will just be sticking up and nobody will help me. I can't pull myself out on my own. People just keep walking past me like I don't exist. I shouldn't be here. I died when I was two. Tell you the truth, the doctors gave up on me. God brought me back. I always think, I gotta be here for a reason, my dad got murdered, shot more than 20 times on the same streets I walk today. I close my eyes and I can't see nothing. I'm afraid of the future. You gotta know the cuts. Sometimes the lines in our hands intersect like the cuts in the hood. You just gotta feel your way through. We take shortcuts to stay out of sight. But that just keeps us out of line. Where I'm from, ain't no rosebush. They just dig it with. [ SOUND ] I've had the same exact dream over a thousand times. I keep throwing money out of a helicopter, to homeless people. I still have that dream. [ SOUND ] Is the day they struggle. In the everyday hustle, you do what you have to. No matter what it is, you do what you gotta do. We don't know what they've been through. We don't know their story. He was just looking for a hand. They say there's a better life but when you go out there looking for that better life, you don't get no help when you trying do the right thing. [ SOUND ] Streets taught me to be hard, it's hard, most times too hard. I shouldn't be here. [ SOUND ] In a black state, in a city with no fight. A area code with no hope. In a house with no lights. In a body with no soul, and a mind with no goal. [ SOUND ] I shouldn't be here. This state shouldn't be my life. [ SOUND ] I can see it stretched against the wall. I can hear, the pain, in his voice. [ MUSIC ] Sometimes I wonder do people feel like me? Do they pain really run this deep? Can you imagine having food and can't eat? Layin in your bed at night and still can't sleep. Sometimes I wonder do people feel like me? Do they pain really run that deep? Can you imagine having food and can't eat? Layin in your bed at night and still can't sleep. His fingers itch. Can't settle in a dream. He's not a dreamer. He's a thinker, and a doer. Nine to five way too slow, though. In 45 seconds, click, vroom. He'd be gone your car. You gotta stay moving. Cast the emotion. What if I was never bald? Am I lucky to be unfortunate? Cuz where I'm from, babies have babies all the time. You gonna get a lot of chances to make choices, but make the wisest choice every chance you get. When your stomach's touching your back, your stomach's touching your back. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Just looking to find a way through the day, to have a life for the night. [ SOUND ] When we dream. We in our empty space that's filled with hope. Stuff happens everyday, stuff you shouldn't get used to, but you do. Most of it just make you want to give up. They know deep down inside that I'll never have a mansion, or smell the ocean. But they'll never admit it, because their minds don't work like that. You can only try so hard to pull yourself out, and if you can't, you're gonna pull somebody down with you. [ SOUND ] Friends turn to foe. Family turn to people you just don't know. The street's cold even in the summer. Two blocks from the hood is a whole new world. But why is there a new world two blocks from the hood? More importantly why's the hood to blocks from the world. How far can a flip go? I don't know anyone who can say, they walked in my shoes, and made it out the hood. Maybe that's why I'm afraid of it. It's like I'm living in the struggle. It make me wonder, how it makes me wonder, where you're from, your skies of blue. But it's like we're leaving out of the jungle. Leaving out of the jungle. Tiny tigers in bed. It's like we're living in a jungle. Living in a jungle. But it's time for a [ INAUDIBLE ]. [ MUSIC ] An ocean of violet. Live for one thing, it's the truth. Find something you love, and give it your soul. [ MUSIC ] Cuz money is on my mind, cuz money [ UNKNOWN ] then pay me to sing this song. Cuz money I think that I'm in love. If my money had arms I'd give my money a hug. [ MUSIC ]. Do you believe there's a greater being, greater than you? A hand over the hood, a soul, deeper than the soul you have? The more I keep thinking about when I died when I was a child, the more I think God was like, nah, you're gonna do something. [ MUSIC ] I gotta job to do. I wish I could remember what God told me to do. I wish I could remember, what cuts I'm supposed to take. What cuts I'm supposed to create. What I do know is, we need to connect, to find each other. Eyes to see. Hands to feel. Hearts to love. 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