Meet the Youth Commissioners

Miatta Harris, Madam Chair
Martha Ellen Stilwell School of Fine Arts

     

“You must always have faith in people. And, most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself.”- Elle Woods

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Shriya Chakraborti, Vice Chair
Elite Scholars Academy

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking

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Jerel Clark, Secretary
Elite Scholars Academy

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela

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Makayla Hodges, Parliamentarian
Jonesboro High School

“Success is a journey. Not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome”. – Arthur Ashe

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Andy Pham, Historian
Martha Ellen Stilwell School of the Arts

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul”. – Alice Walker

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Eriana Ahmad
Jonesboro High School

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you”. – Walt Whitman

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Anaiah Allen
ACC Academy – Home School

“Talent is good. Practice is better. Passion is best.” – Frank Lloyd Wrigh

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Morgan Baxter
Martha Ellen Stilwell School of the Arts

“Live life like it’s your last day, make every minute count. For tomorrow is not promised, live in the moment.” – Alisha Broughton 

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Ta’Nyla Booker
Jonnesboro Hight School

“God is within her, she will not fail”. – Psalms 46:5

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Aidan Brooks
Jonesboro High School

“Fearless is not the absence of fear. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” – Taylor Swift

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Oluwadara Dehinsilu
Elite Scholars Academy

“I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that” – Anita Hill

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Kadiatou Diallo
Elite Scholars Academy

“And do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know it” – Quran

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Jeremiah Janvier
Elite Scholars Academy

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection” – Thomas Paine

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Nia LeBoyd
Jonesboro High School

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated” ~ Coretta Scott King.

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Emani Madison
Martha Ellen Stilwell School of the Arts

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for a good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope”. – Jeremiah 29:11

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Sophia Nguyen
Elite Scholars Academy

“Be intrusive in places that are not inclusive”. – Brandon P. Fleming

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Isatou Njie
Morrow High School

“To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition.” – Lauryn Hill

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Cameryn Polk
Elite Scholars Academy

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi

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Robert Reed-Taylor
Omnia Academy – Home School

“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well”. – Mark Haddon

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Keila Rodriguez-Porras
Elite Scholars Academy

“Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.” – Dodinsky

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Jeremy Stephens
Martha Ellen Stilwell School of the Arts

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ― Audre Lorde

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Judah Whaley
Jonesboro High School

“Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him”. – James 1:12

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Hannah Willis
Forest Park High School

“I can let my life pass me by or I can get down and try, work it all out this lifetime” -Maxwell

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Ariel Woods
Martha Ellen Stilwell School of the Arts

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

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Krystal Zarate-Hernandez
Elite Scholars Academy

“Accepting the matter of all occurrences, whether good or bad, is how you heal from constant fear and negative expectations” – Jaunurys Zarate-Hernandez