Renatta Fordyce is an Africana Studies student and member of Phi Theta Kappa at Essex County College in Newark, New Jersey. She was born in Guyana where she worked as a News Reporter for The Stabroek Newspaper, and volunteered with Guyana’s arm of The Rights of the Child Organization (ROC). While with ROC, Renatta was actively involved with the “Eradicate the Hate” campaign that sought to mend the country’s political divide during the electoral seasons. She is the news editor for the Essex County College Observer and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in English with a focus on Post-Colonial Studies.