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Spelman Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Team Donates Winnings to Combat
COVID-19
After the annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization offered students an opportunity to forward funds that would have been used for the competition to local non-profits. Led by graduating seniors Venus Montgomery and Jade Lockard, members of the Spelman College Honda Campus All-Star Challenge team made the
unanimous decision to reallocate Honda funding to support Goodr, an Atlanta based nonprofit that works to help ensure that students in the Atlanta Public Schools system have food security, a need that has increased significantly because of the impact
of COVID-19.
Other members of the team, including Maati McKinney, C’2021; Kameryn Gosine, C’2021, and Chayla Cherry, C’2022, have volunteered or have plans to volunteer with Goodr, said Lockard. "When presented with the opportunity to select an organization to receive funds through Honda and the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, Goodr was the first organization that came to mind," she said. "Spelman students serve in Atlanta Public Schools year-round. This is the perfect opportunity to continue giving back to APS students and the Atlanta westside community." Since May 1, Honda has provided a total of $325,000 to HBCUs, in turn helping them serve 108 organizations in 20 states. "We value this timely support to the
larger community in which Spelman College is situated," said Daniele Bascelli, coordinator for instructional technology and coach of the Spelman College Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Team. "Honda’s corporate outreach and direct assistance to communities in need is a model for our Spelman students as they go forward into positions of leadership and responsibility."
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As Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the country, one Spelman student organized a protest to advocate for Black lives in her hometown. Kari Harper, C’2023, a political science major, created Together We Care to advocate for
Black people living in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The group attracted more than 100 participants for a recent protest in late June. "A group of eight other women, all college students, wanted to create an organization that would advocate for Black lives in Fountain Hills, throughout the country and the world who are facing racial discrimination," said Harper. The protest, led by Harper and her organization, drew a handful of counter-protesters who carried "Police Lives Matter" flags and yelled, "All Lives Matter." Harper told the Arizona Republic that the presence of the
counter-protestors only motivated their effort. "If we're both expressing our views, we'll be able to meet some type of common ground and hopefully one day come to the conclusion that Black lives deserve to be equal."
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As movements increase to highlight inequities and injustice related to African Americans, Spelman’s online journal, "The Aunt Chloe Collective," is including a special section focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the resurgence of protests, demonstrations and actions in
support of Black Lives Matter movements. Editors are seeking documentary and art photography, as well as other creative forms that visually convey the Black experience in relation to protests, building under the crisis of an ongoing pandemic and the international response to relentless police brutality and systemic racism. The journal is also seeking written testimonials, stories, and songs, as well as literary works that highlight Black resilience, creativity, possibility, justice and
joy. To be included in the online journal submit creative work by email to auntchloesubmissions@gmail.com with the subject line "Special Section," by July 20.
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Spelman Alumna Makes An Impact Through Strategic Leadership
Cynthia Wallace, C’93, recently became a member of the City of Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan Strategic Advisors group. As an advisor Wallace, who also serves as chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party’s 9th Congressional District, will contribute to the development of community improvements. The plan will guide how investments are utilized in Charlotte, North
Carolina, over the next 20 years and includes a Capital Investment Plan, a 2030 Transit Plan and plans for public art. After relocating to Charlotte for a career opportunity, the Springfield, Georgia, native helped to re-charter the Charlotte Chapter of the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College and served as chapter president from 2008 to 2012. During her presidency, the chapter launched a scholarship fund and raised more than $10,000 for its inaugural Dovey "Mae" Johnson Roundtree Scholarship in honor of the late Spelman graduate and Charlotte native who was a renowned civil rights activist, attorney and ordained minister.
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Spelman College is known for educating global change agents, who are leaders on campus, in the community and in their careers. If you have an idea for a news story on Spelman faculty, staff, students or alumnae, we would love to hear about it. Submit your story ideas to spelmanconnection@spelman.edu. Check out the submission guidelines for the weekly
e-newsletter.
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