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2022 SESSION


HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 192
Commending Ayana A. Askew.

 

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 12, 2022

 

WHEREAS, Ayana A. Askew, a senior at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, has achieved great success as a scholar, artist, and civic leader; and

WHEREAS, Ayana A. Askew advocates on behalf of her classmates as senior class president at Booker T. Washington High School and as a member of advisory committees to the School Board of the City of Norfolk and the Office of the Superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools; and

WHEREAS, an accomplished poet and filmmaker, Ayana A. Askew is a two-time national winner of both the NAACP ACT-SO performance poetry competition and the C-SPAN StudentCam documentary competition; and

WHEREAS, Ayana A. Askew is an active and engaged member of her community who serves others by both raising awareness of gun violence and acting as a mentor to younger children; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That Ayana A. Askew, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, hereby be commended for her academic, cultural, and civic accomplishments; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Ayana A. Askew as an expression of the House of Delegates’ admiration for her contributions to the Commonwealth.