Jamila Hadiya Tyrrell, M.B.A.

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Jamila Tyrrell

Job Title: First Generation Specialist

Favorite Quote: The 3rd principle of Kwanzaa Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) Making our brothers and sisters problems our problems so that we might solve them together. ~Dr. Maulana Karenga

Coaching Mindset: Serving students by assisting them in identifying where they belong and how to engage in their campus and global community while providing them life lessons.

Higher Education Background:

B.A. - Africana Studies - Tennessee State University
Post Graduate Studies - African Studies at the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies Nairobi, Kenya
M.B.A. - Global Management - University of Phoenix

Interest and Hobbies:

Africana studies
African Spirituality, African Roots of Christianity and Islam
Licensed Financial Professional on a mission to close the wealth gap
Doula/Breastfeeding & Parenting Educator
Mental Fitness Advocate & Ambassador
Swimming, dance, Tai Chi, Yoga

Top Life Defining Moments in Higher Education

Learning that "Rejection is God's way of protecting and redirecting you."
How to raise your identity through education, service, and adding value to others.
What is for you is yours and everything happens in divine time.
As a wife and mother of 5 in graduate school, you can have it all; however, it will not all be at one time.

While in College I Experienced:

Therapy for the first time, where I made the decision to stay out of state although I was being pressured to return home. I also learned I had spent the past 10 years grieving the death of my mother and absence of my father.
Learned the value of nurturing relationships with my professors.
Overcoming the judgment from others selecting Africana Studies as a major.
Celebrating the accomplishments of my peers while experiencing rejection.
Held the title of Miss Nubian Queen 1997.
Member of the Great Debate Honor Society, Inc, where I traveled to attend conferences.
post Graduate Studies in Nairobi, Kenya where I spent 3 months, and while I was there, the U.S. Embassy was bombed.