upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Mia will create a video documentary about the particular challenges faced in the schools and communities by mentally gifted African American girls, focusing on middle school-aged girls in West Philadelphia. Through telling her own story as well as helping the girls to tell theirs, Mia hopes to make visible the gifted, young black girls whose stories are rarely told. In this way she believes that young women can be empowered to think of themselves as transcendently special, with abilities and possibilities they might not always be able to see or imagine within the confines of their everyday lives.