Sarah Stitt meets with First Lady Biden for Hope Rising project

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TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma First Lady Sarah Stitt met with U.S. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden connected Friday day to speech astir Stitt's Hope Rising initiative.

Stitt met with Biden arsenic she arrived successful Tulsa for a scheduled travel to Cherokee Nation Immersion School.

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Stitt co-founded Hope Rising alongside OU-Tulsa prof and the founding manager of the Hope Research Center, Dr. Chan Hellman.

The inaugural aims to bring "the subject of hope" to Oklahoma communities to supply resources for carnal and intelligence health, acquisition and businesses.

"We don't privation Oklahomans conscionable to survive, we privation them to thrive," Stitt says.

>> Learn much astir Hope Rising communities here

The 2 archetypal ladies met connected Biden's level for respective minutes earlier coming down to beryllium greeted by Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum connected Friday afternoon.

Stitt met with erstwhile First Lady Melania Trump during 1 of her visits successful the erstwhile administration.

"At nary constituent successful my beingness I thought a small miss that grew up present successful Tulsa would ever person that accidental truthful it's really precise moving," Stitt says.

"I was reasoning erstwhile I was driving here, I can't ideate that I would person ever met 2 sitting presidents, 2 archetypal ladies — it's an honor."

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