Emerging Leader Blog Links

Hello All!

I'm so excited that you all were able to set up your individual blog links! For the duration of the course, we will utilize these links to help facilitate our discussions on the days we're not physically in class. Please take a look at the following blog links. Click on the names to view the page/profile. 

- EL Class Blog

- Savannah Brown 

- Sierra Burns

- Tara Ann Goodwin

- Michaela (Misha) Madison

- Trinity Moss

- Jaquarius Norman

- Kayley Ross

- Trista Lynn Winfree

- Alex (Sabastian) Wright

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