It’s a tough world
out there. Madia Brown’s life speaks to that
without her saying a word.
The 21-year-old is a recent graduate of Norfolk
State University in Virginia says she is headed
to the top despite, setbacks earlier in her life.
“If you don’t stand for anything, you’ll
fall for everything,” Brown said.
Her brother was killed in Liberia when she was considered
too young to understand what happened. When she
was 3, her single-parent mother died in a hospital
during surgery.
Family friends helped Brown’s grandmother
raise her and her older sister.
“My goal
is to prove people wrong,” the Walterboro,
S.C., native said. “People assume that I’m
going to be a statistic.”
Brown, who first wanted to be a fashion designer,
detoured into writing for the school newspaper after
the high school yearbook staff was full.
In high school, after being promoted from reporter
to section editor, Brown’s peers recognized
her talent for page design and she eventually became
a design editor.
At The Spartan Echo, NSU’s student newspaper,
she was the design editor during her sophomore and
junior years and was promoted to editor in chief
her senior year.
Brown, who has interned with the Virginian-Pilot
and the Detroit News as a Chips Quinn Scholar, is
scheduled to go to Washington after the New York
Student Journalism Institute as a design intern
at the Washington Post.
BRAVETTA HASSELL
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