Attallah Smith Honored by Atlanta’s Girls of Colour Initiative – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – Attallah Smith, a senior on the Georgia Tech ladies’s observe and subject staff, was honored with the Excellent Undergraduate Scholar Impression Award by the Workplace of Minority Instructional Growth (OMED) in partnership with the Girls of Colour Initiative (WOCI) Atlanta collaborative in increased training.

As an environmental engineering main, Smith has consecutively obtained Dean’s Checklist honors for the reason that fall of 2020 and was awarded the HOPE Scholarship for her continued tutorial excellence.

On and off the observe, Smith has demonstrated management to her teammates and different student-athletes. She holds useful positions in a number of organizations together with Chief of Employees on the Scholar-Athlete Advisory Board, consultant on the ACC Scholar-Athlete Advisory Council, coordinator on the GTAA Range, Fairness and Inclusion Council, Treasurer & Committee Chairperson of Xi Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and constitution member & Vice President of the Georgia Tech NAACP Chapter.

Smith has additionally discovered time to dedicate herself to new academic experiences and advocate for her friends. She was chosen to characterize Tech on the ACC Unity Journey to Selma/Montgomery, Ala. this previous summer season wherein attendees got the chance to interact with key websites of the civil rights motion. In spring 2022, Smith traveled to Washington D.C. with different college students to marketing campaign for reductions in pupil faculty loans and money owed.

Throughout her time at Tech, Smith has proven nice management expertise and totally embodied the position of being a student-athlete.

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