Leadership & Community
I sprint for Cornell, help student-athletes connect with opportunities, and bring a DCPS graduate’s perspective into education conversations.
Athletics
The races matter. So do the hours of preparation and the people sharing them.
On the track · Cornell
I compete in the sprints for Cornell. At the 2025 Big Red Invite, I placed second in both the 100m and 200m. My sophomore season included six meets and a 7.06 in the 60m.
Meet-by-meet results ↗Season marks reported in Cornell’s 2025–26 athlete biography.
Between sessions · January 2026
Returning to campus early for training left me with more unstructured time than I expected. Building Legos, spending time with teammates, and meeting athletes from other teams helped me turn that quiet into connection. I wrote about it in my dialogue course.
Read the reflection ↗
Representation & possibility
Representing Cornell at the 2026 Black Student-Athlete Summit put me in conversation with athletes, coaches, and professionals about leadership, career development, and life beyond competition.
EY Beyond the Game brought another perspective: translating preparation, teamwork, and resilience into communication, mentorship, and career readiness.
Team culture & service
As Co-Vice President of the Spiked Shoe Society for 2026–27, I’m thinking about the connections that help a team feel like a community.
Proposed mentorship and team-event ideas sit alongside a simple principle: encouragement and preparation matter beyond the track, too.
More campus leadership ↗Leadership in the room
Leadership here means building with people: representing a team, sharing a platform, and making opportunity easier to see and use.
Belonging + career access
Professional-development programming connects student-athlete belonging with alumni, speakers, career readiness, and opportunity.
Service in motion
Team service turns preparation, encouragement, and shared effort outward toward the wider community.
From participant to convener
After founding McKinley Tech’s debate team and serving on Mikva Challenge DC’s Student Voice Council, public speaking became less about being heard and more about helping other students enter policy, education, and opportunity conversations.
Shared work: built with student peers, coaches, educators, civic leaders, and program partners.
Campus Leadership
Three roles, one pattern: use an existing platform to make the next opportunity easier for someone else to find.
MOCA
As Professional Development Chair, I help connect student-athletes of color with alumni, speakers, and career preparation, including the MOCA LinkedIn Lab.
Spiked Shoe Society · 2026–27
As Co-Vice President, I’ve proposed Lineage Bingo and informal office hours to help younger athletes ask about classes, résumés, and internships.
Sustainability in Athletics
I support course planning and guest-speaker coordination, connecting students with people working on sustainability in professional sports.
Cornell Club of Washington · Featured Cornellian
“A skilled bridge builder.”
Joined the Cornell Club of Washington’s 2026 Freshmen Send-Off Committee to help welcome incoming students from the Washington region into the Cornell community. The club featured my work connecting students, alumni, employers, and communities, describing me as a “skilled bridge builder.”
Selected as a member of Cornell’s Red Key Athlete Honor Society, which recognizes student-athletes for leadership, integrity, and commitment to their teams and the broader community.
Serve as an ambassador for Black Student Empowerment at Cornell, helping plan and promote programs that support student confidence, belonging, and professional growth. Help lead initiatives like Polished for Success, focused on personal branding, networking, and free professional headshots for students.
Designing career programming, alumni engagement, speaker events, and opportunity systems for student-athletes of color.
Building partnerships, strengthening campus connections, and expanding community-facing programming.
Selected to serve as Co-Vice President of the CUTF Spiked Shoe Society for the 2026–2027 school year. The role supports leadership, tradition, and service within Cornell Track & Field/Cross Country.
Helped shape fall course programming, support a transition toward a two-credit format, and build a guest-speaker pipeline connecting sustainability with professional sports.
Serve on Cornell’s Arts & Sciences Academic Integrity Hearing Board, helping review academic integrity cases and uphold community standards within the college.
Compete as a Division I sprinter while balancing varsity athletics with a rigorous academic schedule in Information Science and Sociology.
Community & Civic Engagement
Bring a recent-DCPS-graduate perspective to a research-practice partnership serving DC education. Participated in advisory review of active studies on math acceleration and career and technical education outcomes, plus discussions on bylaws, governance, and the five-year research agenda.
Served as the fictional client representative for high school consulting teams designing an AI-enabled sports-media solution. Asked probing questions, challenged assumptions, clarified requirements, and gave honest feedback without solving the case for students.
Co-organized a small dinner convened by Oye Owolewa’s team, with David leading the discussion. Helped bring DC young people into a practical conversation about housing, jobs, education, safety, transportation, political participation, and a proposed youth council.
Represented student perspectives on issues affecting schools and communities through advocacy, dialogue, and civic engagement work. Collaborated with peers and adult leaders to elevate youth voice in conversations about public education and policy.
Built early experience framing problems, adapting messages, and staying close to implementation through student advocacy conducted with peers and adult partners. The story does not claim sole authorship of district policy.
Founded and led McKinley Tech's debate team, building it into a competitive and respected student organization. Recruited and mentored members, coached newer debaters, and helped lead build opportunities for students to practice and compete.
Recognition
I’m always open to conversations about leadership, student voice, education equity, and community-driven change.