Partner Spotlight: Primerica

Our partners are integral to our success at JA of Georgia and they support our organization in every sense of the word. They're support goes much further than just a financial donation. Their employees give their time to volunteer with our students, their leaders help guide our organization in the right direction, and their brands infuse our programs with authenticity.

Primerica is store front sponsor at the JA Discovery Center at Gwinnett in JA Finance Park presented by Assurant. Recently their staff volunteered for a day of inspiring students' independence, and they documented the experience on their blog!

Check it out here.

Feature Friday: Zerubbabel Y.

Today's ‪#‎featurefriday‬ is Zerubbabel Y., a freshman in our JA-MBA program at Banneker High School.

With a name like Zerubbabel, you know he must be an interesting 15 year old! What some people may not know though, is that his dream is to become a video game designer. He is also the tallest person in his house, an accomplishment among 6 siblings, plus his parents.

Zerubbabel is one of more than 120 students that make up the freshman class at the JA-MBA at Banneker High School. Stay tuned to meet more of these driven future-leaders!

Feature Friday: Jabarri Weston

As we kick off a new year, we’re starting a Feature Friday to help our supporters get to know JA better! Each week we’ll feature a student, sponsor, volunteer or staff member that helps shape our organization’s story.

For our first ‪#‎featurefriday‬ we have Jabarri Weston. He is a senior at Chamblee High School who currently serves as President of Gadget Tree, the JA Fellows company at the IHG host site.

Jabarri, shown here with Tyler Mccain, has worked his way up the leadership ladder within JA Fellows, and credits Tyler for helping him do so.

"He saw potential in me that I didn't see in myself and since that time, he has taught me the skills to be a leader. Tyler, a science aficionado, used rules from Isaac Newton, specifically his 2nd Law of Motion (for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction) to make the motto "Fail Harder," because the harder we fail at something, the better we will succeed."