Gender: Female

My move to Pahokee, FL

When my husband decided that our family would move to his hometown of Pahokee, FL. I knew it would be a significant change moving from a metropolitan city, 1,000,000+ to a small city of about 6,000 people. My husbands return home was two fold. He wanted to be close to his family-mother, father, brothers and sister but also wanted to help his community by becoming the Mayor, which meant for him using all that he had learned and experienced, bringing it back home to Pahokee. He was adamant about returning home from the day we met in 1993 at Alabama State University. This was instilled in him from his graduation speech in 1992 at Pahokee High School. What he took away from that speech was that the speaker encouraged them to go out and gain knowledge and experience but don’t forget about returning home to help. From 1992, he kept this in his heart and vowed to return home to help his city.

More for us

The family orientated community , everyone works together in order to promote a better community. But the city might be on a economically.

Much Better

Better to live here from where I lived. Better opportunities in the community.

Perseverance

In high school when i received a full ride to UF.

Helping earth other out

I grew up with my grandparents they was very old so they didn’t have much control of my brothers and I. We grew up not having much we had to work with what we got.

Humble Servant

Bring able to come back and give back to the community. Doing stuff for those who gave to me as a kid.

Rose out of concrete

Living around violence-but finding the good out of every situation. Great support system.