Please join us in congratulating the CHRSJ 2019 Student Advocate Award Winners.
Their passion and commitment to activism and advocacy is an inspiration to students across the Barry University Campus.
About the Awardees:
Michidael Ceard was born in Port Au Prince, Haiti. She immigrated to Miami in April 2013 with her family at the age of 13. She is currently a junior studying English Literature and seeking to minor in Africana studies at Barry University.
Ceard has worked on numerous civic engagement projects with the most notable being the Temporary Protected Status Workshop for undocumented people in Opa-Locka and the Rights-for-Restoration campaign that successfully helped in adding amendment 4 to the Florida Constitution. With time, she plans to become a civil rights attorney working with a nonprofit for social justice and exclusivity.
Jamie Vaughn is currently a 1st year graduate student in the School of Social Work at Barry University. She comes to Barry with a master's in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Florida Atlantic University. Her future career paths include working in sexual assault prevention, comprehensive sex education, and sex therapy. After graduating, she hopes to receive her PhD in Human Sexuality or Clinical Sexology.