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  • Benny Smith

    Benny Smith

    February 21

    Benny Smith is proud of his success because he is deliberate in using the investment of time and energy that a community of people have given him throughout his life to make a lasting impact in the lives of others.

  • Rome, Italy

    All Roads Lead to Rome

    February 17

    Despite Covid-19 challenges, Samuel Josephson, a Sophomore studying International Studies and History, was able to arrange a study abroad program at the American University in Rome.

  • Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

    Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

    February 7

    Brandi Hinnant-Crawford says that her success makes her humble, appreciative and grateful. She is proud, but not of herself; She is proud of the fantastic community that raised and nurtured here. And her success makes her accountable to that community.

  • Myron Jackson

    Myron Jackson

    February 7

    Myron Jackson is proud of his success because it taught him to be grateful for the help and support of others. One cannot succeed alone.

  • Shamella Cromartie

    Shamella Cromartie

    February 1

    Shamella Cromartie didn’t recall the first time she heard that “if you live by the cheers, you die by the boos,” but it stuck with her and it shapes much of her thoughts around success.

  • Munene Mwaniki

    Munene Mwaniki

    February 1

    Getting a PhD certainly isn't easy and there are few Black professors to model after, but Mwaniki also was fortunate in a lot ways and didn't believe that a degree made him smarter than others.