Storm Preparedness 101 | Destiny James | TEDxUMiami

Описание: Struggles and hard times shape who we are as individuals. In life, storms will come your way that can test your strength and destroy everything you know to be comfort if you aren't equipped with the necessary tools. How will you prepare for life's storms? Destiny James is a University of Miami junior from Denmark, SC, majoring in Public Health. Upon graduating, she plans to attend graduate school to receive a Master of Public Health degree, soon after returning to South Carolina to implement disease prevention programming in the low country, the area in which she was born and raised. Destiny is the founder of the Live 2 Win Fighters initiative, a cancer awareness initiative founded in honor of her father who passed from Stage 4 lung cancer May 2016. She has devoted a lot of her time at University of Miami to poetry and spoken word, joining the Speak What You Feel Poetry Club, performing duties as Secretary before becoming Vice President of the organization. She is also a member of UM’s Sunshine State of Mind slam team in which she has competed with the team at CUPSI (College Union Poetry Slam Invitationals) 2017 in Chicago and will be competing at CUPSI 2018 in Philadelphia against 72 colleges from across the world. Destiny devotes her weekends to mentoring in the INSPIRE U Academy, a program in which UM students are paired with students from Booker T. Washington High School. She is a 2017-2018 recipient of the Dr. Robert Moore Scholarship and the UM Black Alumni Society Woodson Williams Marshall Association Scholarship. In February 2018, Destiny was surprised with a $50,000 scholarship from rapper Drake, and since has appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live and founded her own mentoring program along with one of her high school classmates, Moses Washington, titled: Dreamers to Dreamers: Mentoring from Morehouse to Miami. Destiny’s main goal in life is inspire people and show those that are from small, underserved towns that they can be all they desire to be. Life won’t always be perfect, as she has experienced several hardships financially and emotionally, but through it all, she continued to work hard and stay true to herself. She believes that when you put positivity out, it will come back full circle. That’s how blessings work. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx