Meet Zakia Dowdy, the standout 2025 graduate from Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta, Georgia — one of the most decorated and awarded students in the state! 👏🏽
This young queen showed up to graduation with a massive stack of over 50 honors, awards, cords, sashes, and medals and walked away with more than $1 MILLION in scholarships!
Zakia has been killing it, she’s a Multiple-time A & B Honor Roll and Principal’s List student, Dual Enrollment Scholar who earned college credits while in high school, a early graduate (December), she’s Active in JROTC, Chorus, National Dance Honor Society, Student Athletic Advisory Committee, and multiple leadership roles, a Community advocate and poetry slam participant.
Now she’s heading to Kennesaw State University majoring in Political Science with a minor in Public Relations. She’s already involved with NAACP apprenticeship, KSU Collegiate 100, Mayor’s Ambassador Council, and the Political Science Civic Leadership program.
Her big dream is to become the Governor of Georgia and we have no doubt she’s going to make it happen!
This is what Black excellence and hard work look like. Proud of Zakia and her family for celebrating this moment so beautifully. The sky is truly the limit! Keep shining, Queen! 👏🏽
If you haven’t already, I invite you to kick off this new month & this summer season ‘On Another Note’. I welcome you to download my project today and allow it to bless you. May the music of the Lord lift you today!
Niggas too worried about 50/50 and who should cook and clean and who fcking who. This couple made their own shopping center and you niggas never go there (I’ve been). I remember y’all let Black Wallstreet in Stonecrest shut down. Yall not serious about Black growth.