classnotes Charon Darris ’98, Melvin Jackson ’98, and R. L’heureux Lewis ’00 have combined their professional resources and expertise to empower youth in Harlem. The three men serve on the board of directors of Achieving Leadership’s Purpose, Inc., a civic leadership training program for high school juniors and seniors in the Metropolitan New York area. Other Morehouse men affiliated with Achieving Leadership’s Purpose include Charles Ray ’92, John Saunders ’92, Ganja Iles ’99, Cory Green ’06 and Timothy Nesmith ’11. R. Erich Caulfield ’98 has been chosen as one of 13 members of the prestigious 2010-11 White House Program Fellows. Founded in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the program offers exceptional young men and women first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. Caulfield is the chief policy adviser to Newark, N.J., mayor Corey Booker and is also the city’s business administrator. William Sellers IV ’98 recently completed a fellowship at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Mt. The Center is a not-for-profit institution that seeks to address environ-
mental challenges by applying freemarket principles. Sellers studied how timber development could extend property rights to individuals in certain sub-Saharan African countries.
2000s Bryce Hairston Kennard ’01 was recently selected to star in the CENTRIC TV hit reality series “Keeping Up With the Joneses.” The series documents the making and national launch of Jones Magazine, a shopping and lifestyle publication for affluent, multicultural women. Kennard, a native of Houston, takes on the role as vice president for marketing and society editor for the magazine. Manu O. Platt ’01 was recently selected for the 2010 National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award. The award comes with a $1.5-million grant for five years to fund studies of strokes in patients with sickle cell disease. Jule McReynold Jr. ’02 recently opened his new law office, The McReynolds Law Firm, P.C., in Atlanta. Julian DeShazier ’05 was recently appointed senior pastor of University Church of Hyde Park in Chicago. Quadricos Driskell ’05 was recently featured in an article in BBC News regarding the victory of Scott Brown of Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S. Senate. Driskell is a member of the Young Republicans. He also was recently named “40 under 40” by the
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Curtis Jamison ‘07, pictured with wife Lyndosha, recently graduated from the Morehouse School of Medicine and will do his residency in internal medicine at Emory University. Jamison was the head counselor/teacher assistant for the 2007 HCOP Morehouse Spelman Summer Science Program and the Thomas J. Blocker Health Careers Summer Scholars Program.
EnVest Foundation, which connects savvy, working-wealth professionals with educational and social issue non-profits in the National Capital Region (Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. region). Chosen from a group of 162 applicants, Driskell was one of 40 individuals selected. Bakari Sellers ’05 was recently featured in Time Magazine’s article “40 under 40,” which deemed him a rising star in American politics. When elected in 2006 at the age of 22, Sellers became the youngest member of the South Carolina General Assembly. Nicholas Richards ’05 was recently featured in the New York Times for his leadership of the Abyssinian Fund, which is supplying Ethiopian farmers with
the training needed to boost the quality of their coffee. Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and farmers have long had the financial aid needed to support them, but no expert support to train them on how to manage the business side. Richards is president of the Abyssinian Fund and serves as assistant pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, N.Y. Ryan Shepard ’08 was recently admitted to the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was selected as a Harvard University Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. The fellowship provides an extensive co-curricular program coordinated by the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and includes tuition and fees. S P R I N G
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