Meet Christie: DRR

Christie Carroll

Director of Revisions & Rapport & Founding Member

 

1. Tell us a little about your background and what brought you to Eternal Legacy AI.

I always half-joke that I have one talent, and one talent only. I truly love people. That love of people has been behind my work with my best friend, Shauna, as we’ve helped businesses with their branding and with understanding their goals and direction. That path led to working with Jonathan Young, whose vision really resonates with my wish that we could really see and connect with each other. Past and present, from all walks of life. 

2. What do you love most about the work you do here?

What I love most is connected with the view for the future. I have always believed that we have all we need in each other. That if we could fully drop our guard and share and learn openly with and from each other, there’s no trouble in the world that could not be, if not wholly conquered, at least greatly diminished. In the world of social media, bots, and trolls, we’ve seemingly lost our ability to listen for more than a meme’s-length. My hope is that Eternal Legacy AI can help us remember again that we’re all people together and we all need each other. 

3. If you could ask Abraham Lincoln one question, what would it be?

I’m not sure if you anticipated that you’d end up being one of history’s greatest heroes, but I am curious, who were your greatest heroes?

4. Who is one person from history you’d love to have a conversation with—and why?

I can’t narrow it down to one. Not because there’s no one important or fascinating enough, but because generally monumental changes in history come on the shoulders of many. Whenever this question comes up, I think of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. Ever since I began learning about these two incredibly impressive gentlemen, I have had the conviction that we desperately needed every single individual we had (and have) fighting against slavery and for racial equality. Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass were very different in how they approached similar concerns, but I truly believe they were each perfect for their own role in history, and that they made their world, and ours, so much better. I wish I could talk to them about their own experiences, and those with whom they interacted who were forgotten by history. 

5. What does the word legacy mean to you?

When I was a kid, I imagined being a traveling hero wielding twin swords, Legacy and Omen. Omen was a very solid, dark sword with a commanding presence, Legacy was brighter than should have been possible, shining light on everything hidden. That little imaginary rescuer of the downtrodden, weapon of justice and truth that I wished I could be has a definite impact on how I view the word “legacy”. When I think of legacy as relates to those stories and people who came before, I picture that bright, unending light. I see shining links being forged from the past to the present, never again to be broken. 

6. What’s a surprising skill, interest, or fun fact about you that others might not guess?

The proverbial open book

I struggle to find where to look

For a little known skill

Or a factoid to thrill

I limerick write, and can cook