Name: Justin Gerard Reid
Major: American Studies; Global/African Studies minor
Favorite Book: Coming of Age in Mississippi
Service Involvements: My focus is racial/socioeconomic inequality, particularly in education. I mentor through a program called Rites of Passage at Toano Middle School and tutor in the local alternative ed. school, as well as volunteer in the Admissions Office. I've also worked with nonprofit and government agencies to address this issue in the cities of Richmond and Petersburg (through Sharpe and The Phoenix Project), in Tanzania (as a member of AIDSTanzania) and most recently while studying abroad in South Africa.
Why serve? For me personally, it's been a matter of coming to grips with reality and accepting the fact that as a black male the statistics are not (and have never been) favorable. I realized early on that too many people sacrificed their time and their money so that I would be different. I'm from the rural South and I was raised by a strong, closely-knit community. I intend to give them a return on their investment. I'm also currently not satifisfied with the statistics.
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