So, I was starting with a limited amount of guidance on how to navigate through college and especially a predominately white institution (PWI). I had an older brother who was in his senior year at the University of Alabama when I began my freshman year at Auburn. I only had one sibling at that time that had already graduated from college and she had attended an HBCU, Talladega College. My parents obtained their bachelor degrees from Faulkner University when they were in their mid-40’s, and that was shortly before I began my freshman year at Auburn University in 2002. I am the youngest child of five children in my family.
