Class of 2017
Major: Global Affairs; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
JT Flowers founded A Leg Even to make sure low-income students at Yale receive the same academic opportunities as others. The program provides nearly 50 students with tutors, mentorship, guest speakers, lunches with faculty, and summer stipends.
Flowers' focus on disadvantaged populations is global, as he has also focused his energy on the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Africa. In the spring of 2015, Flowers spent a semester in Rabat, Morocco, where he was a youth coordinator at a resettlement center for refugees. He also cofounded the Oxford-Yale Refugee Education Initiative, a collective of about 40 students who conduct research on topics involving migrant populations.
At Yale, Flowers is the cofounder of the Black Pre-Law Association, a peer liaison for the African-American Cultural Center, and member of both the Black Men's Union and the Arab Student Association. He’s earned fellowships in social policy and social justice.
Flowers is driven by a desire to increase opportunities for disadvantaged groups from all over the world, and he eventually hopes to implement transformative social policy.