What is Pony Tales???

My wonderful co-worker Mandy typed this explanation up for me. She has been working with Pony Tales for quite some time...

Well to be exact.. or should I say vague? Pony Tales is a youth organization started by Kitara McClure who is first and foremost a motivational speaker. Kitara uses her personal experience as the First Lady of the Black Disciples Street Gang in Chicago to motivate young people to not make the same mistakes that she has. Today Kitara is/has completed over five years in the United States Army; making Sgt after just 2, finishing up her Masters, has debated at the United Nations, won the "Making Black History Today" award, is a wife and mother of four, has been the key note speaker for many schools, colleges and city officials and among many other things, is the multicultural director at SCC.

Now back to Pony Tales. Pony Tales is actually an acronym for Positive Outreach Navigating Youth Teaching Adolescence Leadership and an Entrepreneurial Spirit. The mission statement is stated here in its name. Kitara, with the help of several other dedicated volunteers wants to see inner city youth provided with alternatives to the typical street life that seem to be the only option for many of today's teens. Pony Tales encourages young people to become actively involved and plugged into their communities and provides opportunities for their talents to be showcased, built up and then used in a productive way. Cricket Communications has partnered and is the primary sponsor of this outreach and it is our goal to reach and involve as many inner city youth as possible.

So that is in a nutshell what I am getting the opportunity to work with. I'm excited about it :)