Journey with Student Saundrea Polk

Student Saundrea Polk began attending GRCC in Fall 2007, and she is a member of our women’s basketball and fast pitch teams. Although born in Germany, she lived much of her life in Georgia before moving to the Seattle area where she finds her hands are always cold. She is very interested in traveling and would like to play basketball in Spain after playing for a four-year school in the United States. Saundrea is working towards an Associate in Arts degree and is interested in Spanish and Business.

Saundrea loves Maya Angelou’s writing because she “touches people everywhere with her words and inspires them to be better people.” Saundrea chose Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Angelou as her Read poster book because she writes “… about living well, about the power of a word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your life.” We asked GRCC reading instructor Harry Rosemond, who posed for his own Read poster last year, to recommend a student from one of his reading classes. So, we are pleased to have Saundrea, one of his former students, as a reading advocate for 2008.