I was at a Grad school fair yesterday on Clark Atlanta’s campus. And there were some familiar faces, like Chris Jones, who happens to be the VP of the Greater Boston Morehouse College Alumni Association, was there representing MIT. And Ms. Monique Davis who came on behalf of Boston Public Schools as well as UMass Boston’s FREE Masters program in Education.
But the one person that stood out the most, to me, was Dr. Karen Jackson-Weaver who was sent down by Princeton University. I remember Dr. Weaver from the Congressional Black Caucus in September 2007. She had many wonderful opportunities at Princeton (like Masters and Ph.D programs) for African Americans.
Dr. Jackson-Weaver is a Princeton alum and she went on to live in Cambridge, MA after graduation and earned a Masters in Human Development Psychology at Harvard University. She, then, became a pioneer to the Bell Foundation, which is a program where college students are coming to the communities and teaching as well as mentoring urban youth students (PS I worked with BELL). Soon Jackson found love, and it was a brother from New York, so eventually she was moving to get married in NY. However Dr. Charles Ogletree (distinguished professor at Harvard Law School) insisted she stay in Boston and head the program, but she promised to start one in New York, making BELL national. So Weaver did just that while getting her hands on two more Masters in African American Studies and US History and a Ph.D in US History. She currently lives in Trenton, New Jersey and works at the Diversity Department at Princeton.
Talk about sheros amongst us.
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