Karlyn Sykes Portfolio

Green Coalition President Halimah Wynn presents facts about water usage and ways to conserve it alongside Information Chair Furé Muhammad. As clouds begin to cover in thick masses up above, a small group of students convene under the dark sky at The S.E.E.D.–the urban garden adjacent to the FAMU Hansel E. Tookes Recreation Center. The occasion: a discussion about the environment in their very own environment, specifically water conservation. The event titled Water Day is the fourth installment of Green Week hosted by Florida A&M University’s Green Coalition. Although the organization was founded at the university in 1996 by a faculty member and former student, after being inactive for three years the coalition’s current president hopes to bring visibility to the chapter and encourage members of the community to become more vested in sustainability issues.   “We’re making a comeback. I literally just tell everyone about [the Green Coalition]. I‘ll ask, ‘Hey do

In 6th grade David Jackson didn’t make the basketball team. “I got cut. Came back seventh grade, got cut. Came back eighth grade got cut again,” Jackson reminisced chuckling through the sensitive memory. “So now it’s time for high school and I said ‘You know, I’m not going to get cut this year.’ I worked my butt off, worked out every day.” Unfortunately, Jackson was met with a similar fate. He was cut yet again from the 9th grade basketball team.   But that didn't stop him. “I made the team my 10th grade year, and after that I said I would never play basketball again,” he joked breaking momentarily from his professional exterior.   That experience, though severely humbling, reflected a determination in Jackson. It is a quality that has proved critical in seating him at the most powerful student position at Florida A&M University: Student Government Association President.   Despite his K-12 basketball career, upon arriving at the university in Fall o