Ciara Dacosta-Reyes of Chesapeake Receives Award at Mary Baldwin College's Honors Convocation

2016 Apr 22

Students, faculty, staff, and friends of Mary Baldwin College gathered inside Francis Auditorium on March 31, 2016 for Honors Convocation, a ceremony to recognize student academic achievement.

At the ceremony, Ciara Dacosta-Reyes of Chesapeake received the Charlotte Forten Grimke Award: Charlotte Forten Grimke was born to a free African-American family of means in Philadelphia in 1837. She was a noted 19th century essayist, poet, and teacher who bent her considerable talents to the abolitionist cause. During the 1860s she became one of the most influential teachers in the Port Royal Experiment which sought to provide education to former slaves living on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina..