Jaylen Brown on Friday paid tribute to a University of California, Berkeley professor who helped shape him into the activist he is today.
Dr. Hardy Frye, described as a “respected scholar,” “brilliant professor,” and “loving husband and father,” inspired the current Celtics forward when Brown was in college.
“Professor Frye will be missed I learned so much from him at Berkeley he taught me what activism truly is RIP,” Brown wrote.
On the African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies portion of the university’s website, Frye is referred to as “a professor of sociology with a research emphasis on community development, policy analysis, program evaluation, and building collaborative school-community partnerships.