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Me with Mentor/Leader/Teacher/Preacher Antwain Jordan at the Our Victorious City Foundation Dinner February 2020

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Why I Became a Teacher & Try to be a Positive Role Model

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Why I Became a Teacher & Try to be a Positive Role Model

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I was at a very low and lonely place when we met and Twan showed me a whole different way to live than what I had thought was possible for myself. I was 14 & had just lost my Granny to lung cancer only 2 months after she got diagnosed and she was my main parent and overall person in my life. I honestly didn't want to be alive anymore at that point because I saw no future or present worth living without her, thank God I got brought into the organization Twan and his brother Jamal were leading at the time through my high school and others in the city. I don't have cute of a picture with Mal but he brought me in first so all credit due to him too. To put it most simply they made a drastic difference literally life saving and life-path altering in my life and a lot of other people around the same age while they were barely older than us themselves. This inspired me to start living again and try to do similarly great work in my own way as hard and as selflessly as I can because it's about the universe and faith in God as much as it's about my own little life. I wouldn't still be here today without Twan, Mal, and the Baltimore Algebra Project and I definitely wouldn't be in this classroom.

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Me with my brothers Sam (RIP) and Shirish

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Why I Care so Much I'd Kill & Die for Freedoms and Everyone on Earth Living Better

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Why I Care so Much I'd Kill & Die for Freedoms and Everyone on Earth Living Better

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If you've also experienced losing friends and loved ones at a young age then you know what I mean, if you haven't I love that you haven't experienced that and gratefully respect your journey as well. There's no valor in loss in my opinion absolutely just the cold reality of it.
Sam was my best friend on my block from 8 years old till he passed away when we were 18. School was a terrible place for him and it didn't have to be, and education systems in this country kill a lot of ways so we need more people working against it inside and out who love life and people and devote their own self to preserving and protecting young people. Sometimes I think if Sam ran into the right teacher or mentor like I did we'd be here together or if I could have done something different things wouldn't have gone how they did but all we can do in grief is apply the love, hurt, pain, strength, everything into the present and future we want to live together in.

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My Granny Looking Over me Climbing as a Baby When she took me to the beach just like she's watching over me now

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First Business Card, Not Exactly a Business

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I'm working on redirecting money people with extra spend on tutoring and private educational services to all the children who need resources right now today as we sit here as well as providing the high level services rich people pay for to children and families who don't have $ at no cost at all. So far I've been able to do this at a small scale by myself while I've been figuring out getting by and graduating as well as surviving some emergency situations the past few years but the vision has worked very well practicing it by myself and I'm excited how it can be applied more now. If you want to work on this at all too or have questions about how it works please lmk.

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This is where I spent the most time growing up besides at home with my Granny. We'd play soccer, football, baseball, anything outside here while the older teenagers hit tricks on dirt bikes and there'd be music and food and everybody outside, just a beautiful time and space to be I'm grateful I got to be