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Anguillian Monifa Brooks Excels
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Miss Monifa Brooks, born 8th May 1980 to parents Oliver and Celia Brooks, graduated with honours from the Baruch College and its honors program, as a Provost Scholar on 30th May 2007. She graduated with a GPA of 3.915 gaining a BBA in Economics with a minor in Social Psychology.
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Monifa Brooks
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Baruch College is a branch of the University of New York. Her academic performance has won her many awards and membership into several Honors’ Societies.
From 2003 – 2007 she was placed on the Deans list and in 2004 – 2005 she was a recipient of Baruch College Fund Scholarship.
In March 2005 she was awarded the Golden Key Sophomore Recognition Award and in May (2005) inducted into the Sigma Alpha Delta Honor Society.
Also in 2005, she won the USS Donald & Mary Ellen Passantino Scholarship and was inducted into the Golden Key International Honor Society.
In her final year Miss Brooks was awarded the Morton Wollman Award for outstanding achievement in Economics and claimed the Beta Gamma Sigma Alumni Medallion for undergraduate students.
Miss Brooks has always demonstrated academic achievement from pre to secondary school. She first attended the Bethel Methodist Pre School and then to went on to Road Primary School and spent her final year of primary education at the Stoney Ground School, where she won an award for outstanding academic performance.
She later entered the ALHCS where she received many awards including several speech night awards and was one of the recipients of the NBA awards for best CXC results in Accounting and English.
While at Baruch, she was a member of NABA, the Finance and Economics Society, a planning committee member for Relay for Life and served as a Health Marshall for the Baruch Health Services.
Miss Brooks’ education was mainly funded privately by her parents Oliver and Celia Brooks and to a small extent by the Government of Anguilla. She therefore would like thank her mother for her determination in helping her to keep her dream alive, the National Bank of Anguilla for making the loan facility available, her adopted sister Sharon Hodge and the Government of Anguilla for their contribution.
Above all she would like to thank God whom she had placed her trust and faith in as a young person and without whom none of this would have been possible.