{"id":54634,"date":"2023-10-23T07:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=54634"},"modified":"2023-10-30T07:42:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:42:35","slug":"utc-naacp-student-chapter-to-be-honored-for-service-to-chattanooga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/utc-naacp-student-chapter-to-be-honored-for-service-to-chattanooga\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC NAACP student chapter to be honored for service to Chattanooga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"379\" data-attachment-id=\"54641\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/utc-naacp-student-chapter-to-be-honored-for-service-to-chattanooga\/naacp-brandalyn2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/NAACP-Brandalyn2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"674,379\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NAACP Brandalyn2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/NAACP-Brandalyn2.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-54641\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/NAACP-Brandalyn2.jpg\" alt=\"The UTC NAACP executive board includes: Bottom row, from left, Samara Graves, Sierra Mitchell, Sydney Jones, Amani Reid, Trinity Carroll and Nia Hardin. Top row, from left, Camryn Ellis, Dominique Harris, Nia-Grace Sharp, Kaiya Walls, Shakara Pankey, Alivia Lacy and Christiana Appling. Photo courtesy: Brandalyn Shropshire. \" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/NAACP-Brandalyn2.jpg 674w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/NAACP-Brandalyn2-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/NAACP-Brandalyn2-610x343.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UTC NAACP executive board includes: Bottom row, from left, Samara Graves, Sierra Mitchell, Sydney Jones, Amani Reid, Trinity Carroll and Nia Hardin. Top row, from left, Camryn Ellis, Dominique Harris, Nia-Grace Sharp, Kaiya Walls, Shakara Pankey, Alivia Lacy and Christiana Appling. Photo courtesy: Brandalyn Shropshire.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student organization is being recognized for its service in the greater Chattanooga community.<\/p>\n<p>The UTC National Association for the Advancement of Colored People student chapter has been selected for the 2023 Viola Mapp Membership Ruby Hurley Image Award from the Chattanooga-Hamilton County NAACP.<\/p>\n<p>The Ruby Hurley Image Awards highlight those who work to build a viable community and serve as ambassadors from the local community. This year\u2019s awards presentation, headlined by keynote speaker Dr. Penny Brown Reynolds\u2014the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s deputy assistant secretary for civil rights\u2014will take place on Thursday, Nov. 2, at the Chattanooga Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The award winners were announced by Rev. Ann Pierre, president of the local NAACP branch.<\/p>\n<p>UTC NAACP student chapter president Samara Graves said she was excited to learn the group had earned the recognition, saying that students don\u2019t join the organization for the attention but rather for the opportunity to give back to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t really post about the things that we do outside of campus because we\u2019re not doing it to be seen\u2014but simply because we care,\u201d said Graves, a junior from Nashville majoring in psychology with a minor in political science. \u201cThe fact that people saw it meant a lot to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels good to know that people see what we do on campus. People see the community service we put in. People see the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graves said UTC NAACP provides service with a different focus every month, such as a Pink Week for breast cancer awareness, and that a lot of the students\u2019 work involves \u201cphysically going out there and passing out what\u2019s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things we did over the last year for Women\u2019s History Month was passing out feminine bags\u2014so pads, tampons, wipes, soap, feminine supplies, razors, just anything that you use in your day-to-day life that homeless people might not have,\u201d she said. \u201cWe bag them up and we pass them out. We try to give out as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Kaiya Walls, a pre-professional biology major from Clarksville, Tennessee, is chapter secretary, overseeing outreach to the organization\u2019s 50-plus members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe draw for me (to join UTC NAACP) was seeing how much everyone on the (executive board) before I joined really felt that they were growing as people,\u201d Walls said. \u201cI saw that a lot of people were doing things that would be out of their comfort zone, but they were doing it together\u2014and then they would go off to do their own service projects as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walls said the service work she has participated in includes clothing drives, shoe drives and going to soup kitchens\u2014and the importance of passing out items people need that often aren\u2019t given to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also do canned drives for the community; we all go out and actually pass it out so that we know that it\u2019s given to the actual people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Brandalyn Shropshire, associate director of engagement in the UTC Office of Undergraduate Admissions, serves as the UTC NAACP staff adviser. As a student, she was one of the organization\u2019s charter members when it was founded in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this recognition is wonderful for the students and it\u2019s twofold,\u201d Shropshire said. \u201cI think it\u2019s good because sometimes you do the work and you\u2019re not sure if what you\u2019re doing is being noticed or if it\u2019s even effective. You never do service to be recognized, but to have someone say, \u201cHey, I see you,\u2019 I think is major.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor someone to take the time to acknowledge that and give them this award will motivate them to keep going. They keep expanding and they\u2019ve really taken off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viola Mapp and her husband, James, were longtime Chattanooga-based civil rights leaders and members of the Chattanooga branch of the NAACP\u2014with James serving 16 years as president. In 1989, they were named the national NAACP organization\u2019s 80th Anniversary Family of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The James R. 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