By Luke Burgess
Luke is a Junior studying Broadcast and Digital Journalism at Syracuse University. On campus, he is the Sports Talk Director at WAER, part of Sports Staff at WJPZ and an on-air talent at ACC Network Extra. Luke minors in Sport Management at the Falk School of Sport.
Just because you live in the United States doesn’t mean the American dream is always accessible.
When I think about like the American Dream. I don’t always think about it applying to me, because I don’t always consider myself like American, even though I obviously am American.
Born in the Bronx, pan-African art curator and creative Raven Irabor thinks that the only tie to the American Dream and the people that benefit is sometimes just circumstance.
My mom’s from Trinidad. My dad’s from Nigeria. My parents immigrated to this country. My mom came here because she got an opportunity to go into nursing. My dad is different. My dad’s more of a creative, very free flowing. So he just ended up in America. This was not his plan.
For Raven, the American Dream is all about having the freedom to do what makes you happy.
My personal dream has always been related to freedom, specifically financial freedom, because I feel like, if you’re able to be comfortable financially, or even more so abundant financially, there’s a lot of things that you can do. There’s a lot of things that you have access to. So there’s a lot of things that you can change and influence.
Raven is…
- 30 years old
- Female
- Trinidadian and Nigerian
- Straight
- Middle Class
- Christian
- Artist/Creative
ravenirabor.com
linkedin.com/in/ravenirabor
instagram.com/raestudios_/
instagram.com/ravencherisse/