For those that read my blog or that know me they know about Chiron. Basically the man changed my life. I met him almost a year ago when he was working in my neighborhood we became good friends and the rest is history. I haven’t seen Chiron since last August so I am not going to lie and say I don’t miss him! Ahhh to be 19 again. . . the good old days Y2K 01.

I know I give GW a hard time so that’s why I am so thrilled to report of Chiron’s successes which can partially be attributed to the The George Washington University’s Prime Movers Media Program which pairs veteran and retired journalists from leading news media companies with students in elective media classes at Washington, D.C., high schools to help them create or strengthen student-run media. (GW Media & Public Affairs, Newswise)

“The Prime Movers program gave me hands-on experience of what it is like to work as a broadcast journalist,” said Chiron Hunt, a 2007 graduate of Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., and a three-year student participant in the program. “The professional mentors who came into my classroom brought real life experience that you can’t get in a normal class.”

Hunt added, “At first, I just took the course as an elective. After a while, I got a feel for what I was doing and started to feel comfortable on screen and was enjoying it. Now, I’m majoring in broadcast journalism at the University of Nebraska and hope to someday work for ESPN as a sports broadcaster.”

Dorothy Gilliam, founder and director of GW’s Prime Movers Media Program & prize-winning journalist who retired from The Washington Post after 33 years to start the program at GW in 2003 and Sam Ford, general assignment reporter with WJLA-TV (ABC-7) have been two major VIP’s in Chiron’s life. Ms. Gilliam and I spoke once last summer and we both agreed that Chiron was going places! It’s official I have got to meet her! I know I could have some fun discussions about my constant fight against the evils of tobacco marketing to the black community

I hope Chiron remembers the fan club he has rooting for him! There will never be anyone that will ever have made such a direct impact to change the course of my life. Thank you Chiron.
Last fall Chiron had me proof read a paper and he said that I could use this quote in my blog this is the first time I am using it. .

These [gangbangers and drug dealers] are the names and stereotypes I deal with everyday. Majority of the time people don’t even say anything, you can just look at their facial expression and tell! Some are good and most are bad, but I’m trying to change that by going to school and graduating. By doing this, I am showing people of the world that an African American Male born and raised in “the hood” and being surrounded by guns, gangs, and drugs everyday made it out with a degree in his hand!

*For information about Prime Movers please contact Dorothy Gilliam @ 202 994 0761 or visit http://www.gwu.edu/~primemovers

For those that read my blog or that know me they know about Chiron. Basically the man changed my life. I met him almost a year ago when he was working in my neighborhood we became good friends and the rest is history. I haven’t seen Chiron since last August so I am not going to lie and say I don’t miss him! Ahhh to be 19 again. . . the good old days Y2K 01.

I know I give GW a hard time so that’s why I am so thrilled to report of Chiron’s successes which can partially be attributed to the The George Washington University’s Prime Movers Media Program which pairs veteran and retired journalists from leading news media companies with students in elective media classes at Washington, D.C., high schools to help them create or strengthen student-run media. (GW Media & Public Affairs, Newswise)

“The Prime Movers program gave me hands-on experience of what it is like to work as a broadcast journalist,” said Chiron Hunt, a 2007 graduate of Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., and a three-year student participant in the program. “The professional mentors who came into my classroom brought real life experience that you can’t get in a normal class.”

Hunt added, “At first, I just took the course as an elective. After a while, I got a feel for what I was doing and started to feel comfortable on screen and was enjoying it. Now, I’m majoring in broadcast journalism at the University of Nebraska and hope to someday work for ESPN as a sports broadcaster.”

Dorothy Gilliam, founder and director of GW’s Prime Movers Media Program & prize-winning journalist who retired from The Washington Post after 33 years to start the program at GW in 2003 and Sam Ford, general assignment reporter with WJLA-TV (ABC-7) have been two major VIP’s in Chiron’s life. Ms. Gilliam and I spoke once last summer and we both agreed that Chiron was going places! It’s official I have got to meet her! I know I could have some fun discussions about my constant fight against the evils of tobacco marketing to the black community

I hope Chiron remembers the fan club he has rooting for him! There will never be anyone that will ever have made such a direct impact to change the course of my life. Thank you Chiron.
Last fall Chiron had me proof read a paper and he said that I could use this quote in my blog this is the first time I am using it. .

These [gangbangers and drug dealers] are the names and stereotypes I deal with everyday. Majority of the time people don’t even say anything, you can just look at their facial expression and tell! Some are good and most are bad, but I’m trying to change that by going to school and graduating. By doing this, I am showing people of the world that an African American Male born and raised in “the hood” and being surrounded by guns, gangs, and drugs everyday made it out with a degree in his hand!

*For information about Prime Movers please contact Dorothy Gilliam @ 202 994 0761 or visit http://www.gwu.edu/~primemovers