Keshia Knight Pulliam sat down with rolling out and answered a few questions about Home Depot’s Retool Your School program, home improvements and the benefits of an HBCU education.
You participated in Home Depot’s Retool Your School project, and you’re a Spelman graduate. Talk about how you participated and what the experience was like for you.
I was approached with this opportunity to be a judge and I really enjoyed it. For me, my participation has been through the social media realm as well as just increasing the visibility of it. As we were sitting in there, there are so many schools who can benefit from this free money. It’s a lot of times just letting them know that it is out there, and this is all you have to do to get it. So, it was a pleasure to be a judge but, also to help increase the visibility of the project. I think it is very worthwhile.
Talk about your home improvement ideas, and what you do.
I love home improvement, my father is a jack-of-all-trades. He has done real estate, general contracting and all of that. So I have grown up knowing how to work power tools and helping do home improvements around the house. As I have gotten older, I enjoy even more the design element of it. From him, I have inherited this ability to see something in its rough form and see the beauty in it, what can happen and how it will transform. I like doing everything — my assistant, my brother and my family members — just about everyone will tell you.
Being a Spelman graduate, what are some of the best memories and the value of attending a wonderful school and one of the top HBCUs?
For me the greatest thing about going to Spelman and an HBCU is just the sense of purpose and the sense of any and everything being within your reach that is instilled in you. You are taught to dream big, with my nonprofit I pass that on. Dream big, think big and accomplish big. You are only limited by your own imagination.
