With seven of the eight UAA schools running an active Black student-athlete group, NYU Senior Associate Athletic Director Janice Quinn reached out to men’s basketball rising junior Zay Freeney about re-starting NYU BLAC. “I was on board immediately and was part of something like that in high school,” recalled Freeney,Continue Reading
THE FIRST WAVE OF MOMENTUM “After talking to Eka (Jose) and Caira (Watson-Haynes) at WashU, Black athlete after Black athlete started reaching out to me to share similar experiences they had and asking how to go about starting a similar organization. Black UAA student-athletes from Case Western Reserve, Carnegie Mellon, and University ofContinue Reading
“You never come into college thinking you are going to create an organization,” stated University of Chicago alum Demetrius “DJ” Johnson, Jr. “You just see there is a problem and try to find a long-term solution for it. That was what BLAC (Black Letterwinning Athlete Coalition) was, and still isContinue Reading
From the time he was 16 years old, Washington University track and field alum Deko Becker-Ricketts Devins knew he wanted to pursue a career in solar energy, even if he wasn’t sure what that entailed. “I discovered solar energy existed and saw the needs it could address. I had anContinue Reading
Before co-founding Washington University’s first Black student-athlete group, neither Eka Jose nor Caira Watson-Haynes anticipated the leadership role they would take, but when they saw the need for the affinity group, they stepped up to make a difference not only with WU BLAC (Washington University’s Black Letterwinning Athlete Coalition), butContinue Reading
Having faced career-altering injuries as a young man, Emory University student-athlete graduate Tommy Davis has leveraged personal knowledge and a passion for helping others into life-changing experiences in global health. He spent six months in Las Terrenas on the peninsula of Samaná in the Dominican Republic starting in June, shortlyContinue Reading
