Friday, October 5, 2012

2011-12 Miss Collegiate Mom Winners




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Erika N. Blakemore is from Alto, TX and is the mother of Kylen Matthew Rosales. She is a proud graduate of Alto High School. She is currently a junior pursuing a degree in Agriculture with a concentration in Animal Science. She plans on working for NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Services once she graduates from Prairie View. Her prospective job is to be soil conservationists. Her talents are singing and writing poems. She Distinguished Full Scholarship recipient of the Houston Livestock Show and the Hoover Carden Scholarships. Her favorite singer is Adele, favorite actors are Mike Epps and Kevin Hart, favorite actress Halle Berry and her favorite food is everything but, seafood. Her activities include playing softball with her baby boy. Her major platform is that a young woman should never let her child be the crutch in her life; your child is your motivation. Her community activities include MANRRS and mentoring at Jones Elementary. Her fantasy dinner guests include her Aunt and Great Grandfather because she never met her grandfather and her aunt died before she could ever say goodbye.



Tiesha J. Seabrook is from Atlanta, Georgia and is the mother of Autumn and Aubri Ross.  She is a proud graduate of Stephenson High School and is now majoring in Animal Science as a junior at Prairie View. Her ambition is to one day become a veterinarian. Her talent is poetry and she has also been honored to be on the Dean’s List. She enjoys cheerleading, broccoli & cheese, Kirk Franklin, and Aaliyah. She stands on the platform that she would stand by mothers continuing to receive an education and also awareness of pregnancy. His community activities include food drives, volunteering at elementary schools and assisting with cleaning up her campus. If she could invite anyone to her fantasy dinner it would be her lovely Grandmother.
Tiara Ashley Nicole Matthews, a nineteen year old sophomore nursing major, hails from the glorious city of Houston, Texas. She likes to sing, dance, swim, cook, read and play with her daughter.  Tiara takes time out to help her family members and the neighbors when they are sick or physically handicapped.  She also works at the Katy YMCA, a part of the Prairie View Student Nurses Association and helps the youth at her church.  Her ambition is to help others who are incapable of taking care of themselves. She wants to give people hope so that they know there are others who care and want to help them.  Her career goal is to earn a Masters Degree in Nursing and to become a Family Nurse Practitioner and to own a private family clinic. Tiara’s philosophy of life is that you never know when your time is up, so live life to the fullest with no regrets.
 
Natalee N. Jordan is from Hempstead, TX and is the mother of Raymond E. Ellis III. She is a graduate of Hempstead High School and is now majoring in Education with a concentration in Mathematics Grades 4-8. Her dream is to further her education to get a doctorate and be an 8th grade mathematics teacher or maybe even teach on a college level. She is also honored to have received both the “Who’s Who American Scholar Award” and “Who’s Who American Service Award”. Her favorite singer is Kelly Rowland and her favorite food is pasta. Her platform is to motivate women with children to stay in college and those who drop out to encourage them to get back in. Her community activities include being a tutor at Hempstead Elementary, High, and Junior High School. Her philosophy of life is "Excuses are the nails that build a house of failure" but for her FAILURE is not an option.  If she could invite anyone to her fantasy dinner she would invite Barack Obama.

Cinnamon Buckhalter is from Compton, California and is the mother of Carter Buckhalter. She is a graduate of Morton Ranch High School and is now a junior at Prairie View majoring in Theater. Her ambition is to graduate college in the year of 2013 and upon graduation to further her studies to become a film critic. She also desires to open her own theatre. Her talents are monologues and dancing. She also held the title of Ms. Freshman Queen 2009-2010 at Prairie View, directed 6 plays and wrote 3 shows. Her favorites are Beyonce, Araji P. Henson and Pizza. She believes that she would be the perfect “Ms. Collegiate Mom 2011-2012 because she is dedicated and hardworking. Her main actives are being a mother, acting & play righting/directing. If she could invite anyone to her fantasy dinner she would invite Beyonce.
Abrini Thompkins