OKC Public Schools special education lift bus driver registers to vote for the very first time.
There are few who understand their cities like bus drivers. Similarly, there are few who understand students like educators. Combine the two and you have people like Melvin Mitchell, a 20-year employee of Oklahoma City Public Schools who has spent a dozen of those years joyfully driving across the city as a special education lift bus driver.
For 12 years, the man known famously among students as Mr. Mitchell has had a front-row, first-hand view of nearly every corner of his city and has seen each neighborhood and community grow and evolve through the window of his bus.