Jaaliyah Heard, Award-Winning Scholar & future physician

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Meet Jaaliyah

This spring Jaaliyah (ja-lee-yuh) will complete “Running Start” which allows her to graduate from Belleville East High School (metro St. Louis area) with TWO Associates Degrees (one in Art & one in Science) in addition to her high school diploma!

Jaaliyah has already been accepted into the pre-med program at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL where she will major in Biology. This means she will be entering Augustana as a college JUNIOR at only 17 years old! 

After completing pre-med, her hope is to return to the St. Louis area to attend Washington University for medical school with the goal of becoming a neonatologist, caring for premature babies.

With dreams of graduating from college debt-free, Jaaliyah is hoping to gain enough votes in the Augustana "Good Fit" scholarship contest. 

Voting only takes a click and no personal info is required. Voters can return once every 24hrs through Feb 1. 

Supporters can vote at http://augustana.net/goodfit/myfit.php?fitid=9

Awards and Achievements

  • National Junior Honor Society Member

  • Running Start Program

  • Volunteer of the month at the YMCA

  • Honor Roll; junior high and high school

  • CIT (counselor in training) service award

  • JROTC Sergent Award

Volunteer Service:

  • CIT (counselor in training) YMCA

  • Childcare Volunteer at YMCA

  • Book Reader- O’Fallon Library

  • Blessings Belleville Volunteer

  • Salvation Army Volunteer

  • Fairview Heights Christmas Spectacular Volunteer

  • Ameren Services Volunteer (various events)

  • Living The Word Church

*disclosure: Leslie L. Jones is Jaaliyah’s aunt