Compton Success Profiles: Aaniyah Hester, Centennial High School
Meet Aaniyah Hester, Centennial High School Class of 2024 graduate. She will be attending UCLA in the fall. She wants to major in Early Childhood Education and Psychology.
She’s interested in those fields because she’s been working as a certified babysitter and at a daycare since she was 14. She hopes to open her own daycare after college and later become a child psychologist.
One of her biggest challenges in high school was she hung out with the wrong crowd during tenth grade, but she got it together and did much better the rest of her high school years.
She was also an active athlete, ran track in tenth grade, and played flag football her junior and senior years.
She values her education because it’s something that no one can take away from her. Aaniyah’s mother told her at a young age: “If you have a lot of brain power, you can go very far in this world.”
Aaniyah Hester is another Compton Success Story.