Set in the 1950s, the hit TV show Mad Men put a spotlight on issues of diversity and equity in the advertising industry. But even in 2018, there's much progress to be made. "I didn't know much about the disparities," Jay Gould, a senior at Cleveland State University, says. "I just knew that I would put on a suit sometimes, take my résumé, and go knock on doors at advertising firms. But I got the feeling that I could never get in." That same feeling-the disparity in representation of persons of color in the advertising, marketing, and media industries-prompted Larry Yarrell II and Lincoln Stephens to start up the Marcus Graham Project (MGP) in 2007.