Members of the St. Louis community listen to Bill Malek, president of Gateway Capital Mortgage Corp., speak about home ownership at a workshop, which was part of “Financial Freedom Seminar: Achieving Economic Independence Through Education” on Jan. 17 in Brown Hall. The event, hosted by the Society of Black Student Social Workers at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., offered a variety of workshops on building wealth, repairing and maintaining good credit, purchasing a home or starting and expanding a business.