teen spotlight
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Senior, St. Jude Educational Institute; 17 years old
notable
• SGA President
• Hopes to find a cure for lupus
• Competitive Taekwondo
• Page for the Alabama Senate
his story
It’s not every day that someone’s list of extracurricular activities
includes Taekwondo, student government association president
and Gardening Club. But David Davis isn’t your everyday
teenager. When David was in the fourth grade, his mother passed
away from a chronic autoimmune disease called lupus. From that
day on, his grandparents Leoneal and Juliette Davis raised him
as their son. “My grandparents stepped into my mother’s place
without being asked, and I’m forever grate