Sheldon Smith:  

Life When I arrived at Howard in the summer of 1986, a taxi dropped me off on the backside of Drew Hall. I didn’t have a clue then. But, I had just entered a new, fascinating world. For the first time in my life, I was completely surrounded by abundant intelligent Black people. Howard is where I finished “growing up.” Since that time, my quest for a professional career has taken me in a variety of directions. I’ve done everything from working at the State Dept. as a civil service clerk and a contract technical writer to working as a security supervisor at a company one of my fellow Bison owns. I’ve done executive protection, guarding the Saudi royal family, worked on a couple of music videos, and worked with the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Project as the Executive Direct...Expand for more