The McNair Voice

To honor the accomplishments of students supported by TRIO programs, Atlanta hosted the Southeast Regional National TRIO Day on Saturday, February 23^rd. In attendance at the Hyatt Regency Hotel were middle school and graduate students from eight southern states. The speakers urged the youths and young adults to stay in school, pursue higher education degrees, and improve the quality of their lives and the lives of their families and people in their communities.

TRIO day kicked off with an address by the Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and continued with a speech by Dr. Arnold Mitchem, president of the Council for Opportunity in Education in Washington, DC. A college and graduate school fair and a career fair were held, after which TRIO students from Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia marched from the Hyatt Regency Hotel to the Georgia State Capitol. The McNair Program at Georgia State University was represented at the convention by five of our scholars: Fatimah Smith, Julie Owens, Giselle Delgado, Rachel Quick, and Jimmy Owens (pictured above from left to right).