Scholar Performance
Tessa was featured with her chamber group on the national radio program 'From the Top'.
Scholar Films
Harun's most recent film, In the Name of the Son, is based on his experiences growing up in wartime Bosnia
Dwayne O. Kelly
"I believe my destiny involves working to help eradicate the negative impact and vicious cycle of poverty, low self-esteem and frequent self-destructiveness in the inner cities."
- Program: 2006 Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Recipient
- Resides: Bornx, NY
- Hometown: Bronx, NY
- Age: 24
- Community College: Westchester Community College
- Four-year College or University: Fordham University
- Academic/Career Pursuits: Liberal Arts, Philosophy, Urban Design / City Planner
- Other Interests: Church / Religious Organization, Health Care, Honor Society, Leadership Development, Liberal Arts, Philosophy, Religion, Tutoring / Mentoring, Literature, Art, Music, Church Counselor
Biography
Dwayne Kelly was a diamond in the rough when he landed at Westchester, a former gang member going nowhere with a limited high school education. Within weeks, he had soared to the top of his class and had written what a professor called a "painful and enlightening" study of the African-American male achievement gap. A son of Jamaican immigrants, he is not eligible for most student aid although his spectacular writing has won him special English composition awards.
Dwayne is alarmed and concerned about the huge number of African American men who fall by the wayside. He and his twin brother encountered a group of dropouts in early 2005 on a basketball court. Trying to talk them into returning to school did not work because most of their friends did not like school and "it would be a code violation to do something separate from their group," he said. That opened his eyes to the reality "that I cannot do for others what they must do for themselves." He helps where he can, setting up concrete ways to recruit more minorities into medicine. Through his church, he works "to instill positive self-concept and work ethic in the inner-city youths I mentor."
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