Faith Kelly is breaking barriers (but not bones!). In her freshman year, she’s certainly wasted no time making strides toward her dream of being an orthopedic surgeon. She maintained a 4.0 GPA her entire freshman year, made the President’s List, and was a member of the Arkansas Tech University honors program. She’s also a member…

Emanie Montgomery is making an impact in her field. She was recently awarded the opportunity to participate in the 2024 HBCU Emerging Leaders Scholarship Program with Deloitte. The initiative provided a safe yet professional setting for selective interns and incoming analysts of various HBCUs to network with each other and other senior managers and partners….

Sydni Hood is on the list – the Dean’s List, that is. Sydni has not only completed the first semester of her undergraduate career but has done so with honors – no small feat. The College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock requires students to be…

Zenobia Kelley has learned a lot about herself in her first semester of college, meeting new people and exploring new opportunities.  A first-year Art major at Howard University, she was accepted to the Chadwick A. Bosemen College of Fine Arts (COFA) Freshman Council. As a member of the council, she’s had the opportunity to connect…

Sabian Murry is wasting no time gaining experience in her future career field. Over the past summer, she was accepted to an internship program at Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates, & Woodyard Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their summer internship is “designed specifically for Arkansas Commitment student scholars to introduce students to the legal profession…

Emanie Montgomery has had an illustrious undergraduate experience so far. While attending the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, she was a cheerleader, a project manager for STEM Academy and the National Society of Black Engineers, and served as the freshman class president. She was additionally crowned Miss Purple of the Tau Sigma Chapter of Omega…

Segovia was recently accepted into the Minority Health Research Training Program at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. The training program is a part of UAB’s Department of Epidemiology, which studies the patterns and control of disease. This summer she will head to Cheongju, South Korea where she’ll complete her traineeship at the Chungbuk National…

During her fall and spring semester Kandace joined a UAMS program called the S.U.P.E.R Project, which partners with HBCU’s in Arkansas and aims to help more underrepresented students pursue health care careers. She is currently researching the decline of breastfeeding in the African American community in central Arkansas. Kandace is also incorporating extracurriculars and leadership…

Although she began her undergraduate career as an engineering student, Aisha Faiq has since decided to pursue a business degree instead at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders School of Business.  Aisha isn’t just using her academic knowledge in class, but she’s applying it to her extracurricular activities, as well. She serves as the Senior Vice…

Volunteering was “bred” in Judge Mark Leverett. “My mom and dad are lifelong givers to church and community,” says Leverett, who presides over Little Rock District Court, Division 3. “That’s what I grew up in. I grew up [in North Little Rock] giving to the community.”