My Community
My world has always been built with people.
I am a proud Black man shaped by engineering rooms, church balconies, fraternity meetings, mentoring tables, dance floors, choirs, festivals, and cultural spaces. These are not side interests. They are the communities that taught me how to serve, lead, listen, move, build, and come back with something useful.
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National Society of Black Engineers
At RIT, NSBE gave me more than a professional network. It gave me a place to practice leadership while carrying the pressure of engineering school. I served as Academic Excellence Chair, Programs Chair, and Vice President, helped with STEM outreach, and learned that supporting Black engineering students means caring about confidence, preparation, belonging, and the next person coming behind you.
Engineering became more human when academic excellence and community responsibility lived in the same room.
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Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Incorporated
Iota taught me to build for continuity, not applause. Through Omicron Omega leadership, Vice Polaris service, chapter technology and communications, advising, and intake leadership, I have tried to leave clearer systems and more prepared brothers behind. Scholarship, Leadership, Citizenship, Fidelity, and Brotherhood are not footer words to me; they are habits that have to survive a change in title.
Brotherhood is strongest when service, succession, and honest accountability travel together.
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National Pan-Hellenic Council of Metro Richmond
Coalition work taught me how much public professionalism depends on private trust. As a webmaster and digital-support volunteer, I have helped Divine Nine organizations communicate across different traditions, protect relationships, and show the public what cooperation can look like when our shared purpose matters more than any one organization.
Coalition work asks for visibility without sacrificing relationships.
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Faith, Media, and Community Service
Church service has placed me in the balcony, behind the switcher, at trustee meetings, inside internal-audit work, and beside young men who needed steady adults. Media ministry and livestream support are not separate from care. Clear audio, a readable announcement, and a reliable broadcast can help someone participate who could not otherwise be in the room.
Worship technology can be access, hospitality, memory, and ministry all at once.
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Mentoring and Professional Development
My mentoring work often begins with practical things: a resume, an interview, a difficult choice, or a goal that still feels too big to say aloud. Underneath those tasks are confidence, emotional intelligence, accountability, and the ability to imagine a future. I want young men to recognize their value before the world tries to price it for them.
A young person should leave a mentoring conversation more aware of their own value.
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West African Drum and Dance
From Rochester to Albany and Troy to Richmond, West African drum and dance has helped me understand community through the body. Rhythm is not decoration. It is listening, timing, memory, discipline, and joy practiced with other people. It has been one of the places where grief could move and belonging could return.
Rhythm has carried culture, memory, discipline, grief, and joy across every city I have called home.
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Break It Down RVA
Line dance gives people a reason to move, laugh, learn, and come back. In Black community spaces, that kind of intergenerational connection matters. Break It Down RVA reminds me that wellness can be social, movement can be memory, and leadership sometimes looks like helping the person beside you find the count.
Joy is serious community work, especially when movement brings generations into the same rhythm.
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