Participants in the community impact discussion were, left to right: front row, Kenyata McGill, BLSA president; Jada Manggrum, BLSA treasurer, and community members Nyong Etuk, Barbara McGill, and Chauntia Williams (behind McGill); back row, Reuben Ndjerareou, LINC UP community liaison; Tracey Brame, WMU-Cooley Law School assistant dean; Donna Shirley; Bryan Blakely, New Kent County Black Caucus commission chair; Toresa Blakely, empowerment speaker; BLSA vice-president Sorinna Griffin; BLSA parliamentarian Julian Williams; and WMU-Cooley Law School student Nikita Hyne.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WMU-COOLEY LAW SCHOOL
From WMU-Cooley sources
WMU-Cooley Law School’s Black Student Law Association (BLSA) hosted a community impact dialogue June 8 at the Grand Rapids campus. BLSA President Kenyata McGill led the discussion on housing, gentrification, education, leadership, and initiatives to support the community.
Community leaders included Lynette Mills, president, National Professional Women's Network; Reuben Ndjerareou, community liaison, LINC UP; Toresa Blakely, empowerment speaker; Bryan Blakely, commission chair, New Kent County Black Caucus; and Jerry Bishop, pastor of local church Life Quest Ministries.
Bishop said he believes millennials have lost their way because the foundation of values have deteriorated. “Where there is no vision, people perish,” he said. “We need the community to focus on philanthropy.”
McGill said that WMU- Cooley Law School’s BLSA realizes the challenges before the community and pledged to continue striving to make a positive impact. She quoted, “I may not change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.”
BLSA’s next forum will be on entrepreneurship, focusing on the awareness of certain demographics that they lack access to information and the tools to succeed.
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