Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – SYNC Weekly, the local tabloid newspaper geared toward young readers, did its cover story this week on Clinton School student Marquita Little. Little is traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa, this summer to complete her International Public Service Project with Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy. She is a Little Rock native who graduated from McClellan High School and Hendrix College in Conway. Below is a snipet from the article. Click here for the full story.
In less than a month, Little Rock native Marquita Little will find herself in the small South African village of Henley-on-Klip. But the 24-year-old is not headed to South Africa for a vacation. Instead Little will spend June and July interning at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.
Little is one of 30 University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service students spending their summer on one of six continents as part of the school’s International Public Service Projects. Student Erin Jones was the first, departing at the beginning of May for Calcutta, India. Other students will spend the summer in locations as familiar as New York City and Washington, D.C., and as far-flung as Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and Kathmandu, Nepal.
A handful of students will serve with the South African Education and Environment Project in Cape Town, South Africa, but Little will be the only Clinton School student at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, about 20 miles south of Johannesburg.
“They weave leadership opportunities into the extracurricular activities,” Little said. “I’ll be working to help kids start clubs and organizations for leadership opportunities, and help with their student government.”
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