ABOUT.
HBCU Imprint, Inc., serves to offer first-generation students on HBCU campuses with the tools they need to succeed while teaching them how to apply them throughout their matriculation. By providing students with mentors, scholarships, community service, and specifically tailored resources, workshops, and information that addresses their different struggles/circumstances as first-generation students we foster a unique relationship with our members that prioritizes accountability, trust, and individual guidance.
Our goal is to ensure that first-generation students receive valuable guidance and assistance in transitioning from high school to college by providing its participants with the type of support and mentorship first-generation students need but often don’t receive through: Mentorship, Programming, and Service.
PURPOSE.
VISION.
Our purpose is to ensure that first-generation college students receive valuable guidance and assistance in transitioning from high school to college; providing our participants and members with the type of support and mentorship that first-generation students need but often do not receive. Leaving no student left behind, we are here to encourage the pursuit of higher education despite circumstance.
Our vision is to help eliminate the gap between first-generation students and those who are not by providing our members with the tools they need to succeed and showing them how to use said resources effectively. Ultimately we aim to create communities of first-generation students with higher graduation rates and a stronger support system.
FOUNDER.
Gabrielle Jackson is a graduate marketing major at Howard University Class of 2022 from Broward County, Florida. As a first-generation herself she noticed and experienced the lack of assistance, support, and guidance for first-generation students on her campus. She decided to be the change that she and students like her needed. She gathered a team together and Imprint was founded in April 2019.
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“Being a first-generation student means that they're taking risks, stepping outside of their comfort zone, and doing something they've never seen anyone in their family do before."