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The affable, yet naturally serious youth also talked about meeting first lady Michelle Obama who was the keynote speaker for Anacostia’s graduation ceremony, and how her gentle words of encouragement will always be with him. “It was both a nerve-wrecking and happy occasion having the first lady there,” Jordan recalled, “because I was going to be speaking to an audience that was the largest I’d ever spoken to and she tried to coach me through by telling me to try not to be nervous.

“She reminded me that it was a time for me to take in and enjoy because, after all, it was my graduation, too.”

That advice proved effective, as Jordan—who’d already cemented his oratorical skills countless times in various leadership capacities at Anacostia—received a standing ovation for his words of inspiration to his fellow classmates. Most are following his footsteps into colleges and universities this fall.

“That just goes to show that because we live in Southeast [D.C.] doesn’t mean we can’t be successful and go on to even higher achievements,” Jordan said. According to school officials about 90 percent of Jordan’s graduating class is expected to go off to college this fall.


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