4-H Pinckney Leadership Program: High School

Rushawnda Olden:
4-H Pinckney Leadership is a program designed for middle and high school students that are looking to develop their leadership skills. Our hope is that we are able to empower them, prepare them and get them ready to succeed in life now, a life in the future, and just life in general as a youth leader and eventually an adult leader.
Jennifer Pinckney:
It's an excellent program. I jumped on board when I first heard about it and wanted to do everything that I could possibly do to just make it grow. Clemente loved working with young people as so do I. I mean, I think about Clemente when he first started out and he had to have someone to get behind him and to push him and to encourage him. And you see the leader that he had.
Kyle Greene:
I was born in Jasper County, South Carolina. My mom was on drugs my entire life. My dad wasn't there. I was raised with my elderly grandmother. I had a daughter when I was 16 in the 10th grade. He took me under his wing when I was just like 16 years old. He said, Kyle, I'm going to work with you. I'm going to help you get to the next level in your life. So I've always had like a relationship with him 4-H just amplified that relationship.
Rushawnda Olden:
These kids, they come from all over the state, but one day they're going to touch different parts of our world and to know that his values, his core values, the servant leader that was in him, to know that that is being spread out across the world is so impactful to me because I know that now everywhere you go, a part of Senator Pinckney will be there.
Sydney Weeks:
I just hope I can learn more about putting others before myself, like Senator Pinckney did and learning about how I can become a better version of myself.
Jennifer Pinckney:
To see our daughter Eliana go through it was very touching. For her to be a part of this camp, which is kind of an extension of Clemente, I can just, I can see her father in her.
Rushawnda Olden:
At the Pinckney Leadership Program, we recognize the pressures that high schoolers are facing and we start to address them by fine tuning who they are now.
Nakel Pinckney:
The best thing that I think I've been able to use since I got in this program would be using my leadership to help others, just leading by example and knowing that I am someone that other people look up to.
Morgan McManus:
I hope that the students learn that this isn't just a week long program, that what you learn can be used throughout your entire life and I've been able to use all the leadership skills and learning that is important to be a servant leader, I've been able to use that at Clemson and so I want them to be able to take that back to their communities and have this be an impact on their entire life.
Andrea Haversham:
I was a part of the Pinckney Leadership Conference the first year it started. I would most definitely say the Pinckney leadership conference changed me as a person. I learned how to properly be a leader.
Sydney Boyd:
I'm hoping to learn from this conference and take back to Charleston, my Charleston community, is to really just inspire the people around me to leave a positive impact wherever they go and just be servant leaders in the community like Reverend Pinckney was.
Eliana Pinckney:
I just want to encourage other people to come to the leadership program. It's one of the best that I've been to. I've learned so much here and I've been able to spread so much back to my community at home and hopefully encourage other kids at the camp.
Rushawnda Olden:
To see that change through one 4-H Pinckney leader, going to their schools being that light, just like Senator Pinckney was, in their communities, that is my vision and that's my hope that it just continues.
Morgan McManus:
My name is Morgan McManus and I'm a 4-H Pinkney leader.
Nakel Pinckney:
My name is Nakel Pinckney and I'm a 4-H Pinckney leader.
Sydney Weeks:
My name is Sydney Weeks and I'm a 4-H Pinckney leader.
Rushawnda Olden:
My name is Rushawnda Olden and I am a 4-H Pinckney leader.

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