Black Excellence Awards: Ashanti Travers Jr

Ashanti Travers, Jr. has taken his struggles and turned them into triumphs, according to Alderman Russell Stamper who first became acquainted with Ashanti when he was 8-years-old and volunteering as a community cleaner.

Ashanti has earned a weighted, cumulative grade point average of 3.1 at Pulaski High School.

For the past two years, Ashanti has served as a youth director for the North Avenue Community Development Corporation and an assistant youth volunteer coordinator for Historic North Avenue Gateway BID #28 since 2014.

In his essay, Ashanti described how when he first began working his mother created a saving plan under the guise of contributing to the family bills. He said at first he resented having to start paying bills before he realized all that his mother had previously provided for him.

When he opened his first bank account, his mother gave him back all the money he had contributed.

“That family literacy game that my mother started with me has changed my life,” he said. “It taught me responsibility, accountability and appreciation.”

Ashanti has applied to Milwaukee Area Technical College where he hopes to major in either dentistry or elementary education.

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