The spirit of a teacher lives on through the eyes and wisdom of a student. Even contrarians who remark “those who cannot do, teach” have to admit they learned how to form words and sentences from someone who cared enough to teach them – You’re welcome, contrarians. Fact is, for extended stretches of time,ContinueContinue reading “We Started Here: Johanna”
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We Started Here: “Coach T”
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” This quote has been ascribed to the late Black luminary, Dr. Maya Angelou, and fits here as we feature the next young leader of our We Started Here series, which celebrates the effortsContinueContinue reading “We Started Here: “Coach T””
We Started Here: Dominique
Our next generation of social leaders are rising up today. We know they are among the most unique in history due to a niche set by the explosion of social media and the Information Age. Today’s youth are multi-layered: vocal, with social media as a soapbox; headstrong, with a taste for adventures & trying newContinueContinue reading “We Started Here: Dominique”
We Started Here: Tammie
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “Some see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” Tammie asks, “why not?” We first learned of her impact and tireless work through a friend in Red Hook-Brooklyn who described to us a passionate young woman from ElmontContinueContinue reading “We Started Here: Tammie”
We Started Here: Njum
When she reflected on the transition from being at home with her family to independence Njum revealed, “It gets lonely at times, I miss my family, but it was time.” Her story like many others finds the one-time Brooklyn native whose family settled into Elmont when she was a teenager, now moving on and beginningContinueContinue reading “We Started Here: Njum”
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