Last week still feels like a dream to be recognized for the work I’ve been doing to educate, mobilize and empower HBCU students through @xceleader ’s nonpartisan @votehbcu program. I received text messages from Dr. Teamer (@drtbt ) and my best friend’s dad that I was on the news this morning. It is because of the work that @j.chinye , @aarianj and I put in 4 years ago and the many HBCU students who continue to support us for making this all possible today.
Thank you to @msnbc ’s @morningjoe , @iamavoter , @rockefellerfdn and @headcountorg for providing us with this national platform to showcase the work of @thedemocracyheroes across the country. Thank you, @mandanadayani , for your vision and leadership.
I am so glad to be in community with such amazing leaders and changemakers. #HBCUAlum #genz #MyDU #VoteHBCU #SayItLouder
I take my work serious, not myself. And, since I’ve started making content on TikTok people on that app believe I just make videos and don’t do anything in the real world. As @fredhaywood told me, I’m a certified yapper but an educated yapper with substance. ✨ Well here’s Tevon in full. It’s called balance. 🫶🏽 #coretrend
4.27.96 | Happy 30th birthday to me! ✨
I am so proud of myself. For the past 10 years of my life, I’ve been unintentionally following a path centered around community, education and simply doing things I enjoy. It has led to a kid from the South Side of Chicago with family roots in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi to return to the South— an experience that has shaped who I am today. Between New Orleans, Atlanta and Washington D.C., I became an adult through this decade, all in different stages. In each of those cities, I’ve learned more about myself and somehow all of those experiences have found a way to help me understand where I’m going.
Turning 30 has already shown me the responsibilities of this decade and how personal this has to be for me. I am excited for this next chapter of my life and the love, joy and happiness that it’ll bring.
To my community, I love you all deep. Thank you for being on this path with me. Cheers to 30! 🥂🤍
When I said I wanted to visit the HBCU exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (@nmaahc ), I had no clue that I would see myself featured in one of the educational videos on HBCU student-led movements. It is a reminder of who I was in 2016 as an HBCU student leader and the work I am doing today to educate, mobilize and empower HBCU students.
Thank you to the mentorship and guidance of Dr. Jeff Benjamin (@drjwitdashot ) who supported me and other @dillarduniversity students during the 2016 election cycle, helping us to understand the importance of nonpartisan civic engagement.
This is why I always say @votehbcu started 4 years before its founding in 2020. 2016 was the beginning. #MyDU
This week, my first op-ed was published where I shared my perspective on how Rev. Jesse Jackson’s role as SGA President at @ncatsuaggies laid the foundation for the prominent civil rights leader we honor today.
As a former two-term HBCU SGA President and first-generation college graduate, I know that my leadership experiences at @dillarduniversity has contributed to the work I am doing today. So many of us share this story.
These roles that we serve in on campus are more than an experience but pivotal moments that help to shape our lives. We should look to Rev. Jackson’s life as a guide on how this shared experience can be embedded throughout our lives. His beginning story is not too far off from us.
Forever grateful for the legacy he has left behind. #HBCU
This Black History Month has been a beautiful blend of me helping to document and contribute to this century long history. There’s been so much love and community I’ve been able to celebrate from writing and sharing stories about our deep rooted legacy in America, to traveling across the country to share my own story, all of this has brought me joy this month. I plan to continue this celebration as it’s BLACK HISTORY YEAR. I hope every month this year and for the rest of this lifetime I feel the joy of what it means to come from generations of Black people in this country who fought for me to be where I am today.
Happy birthday month to my grandparents. Love us. 🖤🫶🏽 #BlackHistoryMonth
I love finding new ways to reintroduce myself to people, bringing together all sides of my life that brings me joy.
HBCUs, student leadership, communication and politics have been areas of interests (and part of my journey) that have helped to describe my passion and the career path that I’ve built for myself.
@blacktechsaturdays has helped me to tell my own story as a nonprofit cofounder, youth civic engagement strategist and content creator.
Here’s more about me. 🌱
‘Culture, Community and Student Leadership’ is a new session that I’ve developed to share what I’ve learned from my leadership experiences between 2016-2018 on the campus of Dillard University. Throughout the session, I help college students understand their why when advocating for issues, identify the community that they are hoping to support and determine their unique leadership style when mobilizing their student body. I had the opportunity to introduce this session to NAACP Youth & College (@naacpyc_ ) leaders during their recent summit.
Thank you to my friends in the youth engagement movement @mr.lewis___ , @_keturahdaijah and @lyricalmarie for the invitation and your leadership. Proud of the work you’re leading.
Excited to share this session with the 2026 cohort of Vote HBCU fellows ahead of the midterm elections.
Great news— our @anthemawards has arrived! In 2025, @xceleader was recognized in the Human & Civil Rights: Grassroots Effort category for our @votehbcu 2024 ‘Say It Louder Tour’ where we traveled across 10 HBCU campuses to educate, mobilize and empower college students. We registered more than 850 students in under 30 days!
Help us fund this tour and the work we’re making on HBCU campuses by putting me in contact with potential sponsors and partners to support our work. #VoteHBCU
2016— the year that defined everything for me from student leadership, identity and my career path. It’s the year I won my first term as SGA President which led to one of the most difficult experiences while in college. It was my first experience mobilizing college students and my introduction to politics. Looking back, I’m so proud of the decisions I made at age 20.
10 years later, I’m leading a nationally recognized nonpartisan civic engagement program, @votehbcu , part of a nonprofit organization, @xceleader , that I co-founded with my friends who I met at a student leadership conference in 2016. I now speak on panels with national leaders and built a life for myself that exists outside of a full-time job. The first generation college student in 2016 was simply doing things that he cared about and little did he know he was laying the foundation for his future. This life exists because I decided to run for SGA President.
It’s been one hell of a decade. #2016
Honoring the 50 year tenure of Dr. S. Carver Davenport, @dillarduniversity ’s very own hidden gem, was beyond special. The world deserves to know his impact, legacy and contribution to Dillard University and the larger HBCU community.
Speaking with Dillard alumni and students from 1975 - 2025 made me grow an even deeper love for my Alma mater. It doesn’t matter the decade, we all share the same experiences and richness of choral music, beyond traditional gospel music.
During my freshman and sophomore year I was a member of DUCC (@illustriousducc ). I asked Dr. Davenport if I could join the choir on stage on graduation day 2018 and he said “boy from Chicago, yes.” 😂
Dr. Davenport’s legacy is vaguely documented online so I hope this story gives him the honor and flowers that he deserves as he’s still educating students at DU.
He is a Hampton University (@_hamptonu ) alum, member of @apa1906network , initiated through the @hamptonualphas chapter. Thank you to the many DU alumni who helped make this story happen.
This is HBCU and Black history.
See the full story in my bio. #MyDU #HBCU
