07/25/2025
Back to Back! 2 weeks, 2 very different recognitions. Thank you to for allowing me to open the conference at this year's Big Bang Conference as The in Providence turns 30 years old! With over 40,000 students globally, it is an honor to be nominated and recognized as an alumnus in action!
This year, the conference came back to its roots in the city where it all started! I learned so much from the amazing educators in my advisory during the course of the conference and had some very informative conversations on best practices in the workshops. The Met taught me how to use my voice and showed me how to build community from a pup! I would not be where I am without this school, BPL, and this box breaking education model that allows students to learn and explore outside of the classroom!
To my Advisor and forever Mentor,/Big Brother , happy birthday 🎂 first and foremost! I hope you're having an amazing day, OG. You deserve it all. Thank you for nominating me, for always checking in, and for being 1 of my biggest supporters these last 22 years! To have a man of color to look up to for all 4 years of my high school journey was certainly a gift 🎁. And even though you lined me *insider.* The thought and the recognition itself is enough to keep my spirit warm. Love you, big dawg!
I'm just getting started. If you not living right, eating right, checking people's bs at the door, elevating your mindset, and encouraging others to do the same? I don't know what you're doing, but you need to do better! In the words of the late great Nipsey Hussle, "the marathon continues!"
