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community service. We volunteer at a local daycare to do activities with the children,
collect socks for the elderly, and help with collecting jackets for local children. We have
recently started collecting prom dresses for young ladies in our community for the
upcoming prom season.

I am also a mother. I have a one-year old son. My son means the world to me and I want
to be a great role model for him. He will know that if you put your mind to something by
any means you can achieve it. With the help of this scholarship I can continue my
education each year. This scholarship is a great help to continue my education and come
out on top. I am very honored to be a recipient of such a great reward.

Trinity Reed

2018 Susie B. White Scholarship
2019 Continuing Education Award
2020 Continuing Education Award

Trinity Reed is the daughter of Brian and DeShantra Reed and granddaughter of Rev.
Maurice and Deloris Irving, pastor and first lady at the Greater St. Mark Baptist Church.
She graduated from Ouachita Parish High School as their 2018 Valedictorian.

She is currently in the second semester of her sophomore year at Southern University as
an Honors College student. Since becoming a student at Southern, Trinity has joined
several national and local organizations. She is a member the National Society of Black
Engineers (NSBE), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society of
Women Engineers (SWE), Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honors Institute (BKX), Honor’s
Students Association (HSA), Richard Margaret Spikes Honor’s college, Southern
University Gospel choir, and Southern University Top Jags.

Trinity has been a representative for Southern on multiple occasions interacting with
NASA, Boeing, and Entergy. Recently, Trinity attended the National Society of Black
Engineers convention on the Southern competition team where she was able to network
with other HBCU future engineers and several engineer recruiters. In the summer of
2019, Trinity was selected to intern with the Department of Homeland Security where she
worked at the Center of Excellence in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois with the Critical
Infrastructure and Resilience Institute (CIRI). She traveled to Washington DC at the end
of the internship to represent the Critical Infrastructure team at the Center of Excellence
conference. Her team won first place for the design of systematic drones.

Trinity finished her fall 2019 semester at Southern University with a 3.5 cumulative GPA.
The Susie B. White scholarship has been a tremendous help with her tuition, as well as
school supplies that she needed for her success as a future Computer Engineer. She has
been blessed beyond measure this year and knows God is with her each step of the way.
To God be the Glory for all the things He has done!

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