2020 – Janyah M

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Janyah is an incoming freshman at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, GA.  She is from Brunswick, GA, was raised by a single mother and has endured financial and personal hardships.  That experience has forged a unique combination of humility and deep determination to excel at school and become the first in her family to graduate from college.  She will be majoring in Political Science at Fort Valley State with the goal to pursue a career as an attorney.