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Veunita Delphine
Veunita Delphine is a communications practitioner, musician, and photographer. She grew up in Michigan where she obtained a love for music, fashion, nature, and politics. While attending high school she began to gain interest in the communications field. Along with some classmates started a smoothie company and would sell the drinks at the AAU Basketball games. From there, she became involved with the fashion company Walk Fashion Show. She worked with the company as a runway and promo model until she graduated high school. After graduating she attended college and began getting involved in Human Services. First, she founded a fashion/lifestyle magazine that focuses on uplifting women. She became Vice President and before she ran for President of Michigan's Opportunities initiate, a nonprofit company that help former foster youth transition into adulthood. She also began volunteering and then working for the Park Wesst Gallery's foundation that helps under privileged youth build family and community connections. She also worked as an ambassador, under Detroit Mayor Dave Bing for the Detroit Department of Recreation's special programing Future Leaders in Progress (F.L.I.P.). The program targeted the five most impoverished, under privileged, and dangerous neighborhoods in the city, keeping young adults off of the streets and shifting their focus. The program offered physical exercise and educational courses that helped individuals plan for a better future. Many of the youth were taken on college tours and the program helped them to prepare for college and obtain scholarships. One of the program's youths was given a full ride scholarship to attend University of Michigan. in the summers she would take extra work. This landed her a marketing internship with Green Door Initiative. A nonprofit that focuses on anti-pollution and educating citizens in the community about methods to reduce their carbon footprint. For a brief time, she worked on a farm that grew plants that produce biodiesel fuel. Later she got a cinematography gig that turned into a career, working for the local television station, Npowered Television Network as a camera woman. She then became an Annie E. Casey Foundation's Jim Casey Fellow where she began working on research with adolescent brain development. After she graduated with a communications degree in Digital Media Arts, she moved to New York City, USA.