Reformers Collective
This podcast is the landing place where high level community reformers and city transformers meet with host Becky Hennesy to discuss and discover godly solutions to earthly problems. Through in-depth conversations and occasional solo episodes, Becky Hennesy tackles this new calling and assignment over life with the same passion she's had for local church ministry for 40+ years. NOTE: Beginning October 2021, Reformers Collective replaces the Being Becky podcast. Current subscribers to Being Becky will now receive notifications for new Reformers Collective episodes.
Reformers Collective
(BB) Ep20_Discovering and Stewarding a Gifted Child (Daphne McQuarter & Alena Analeigh)
Host Becky Hennesy sits down with one of the most amazing mother-daughter combinations she's ever met. When Daphne McQuarter filed adoption papers for Alena Analeigh at birth, she had no idea the genius mind residing inside the newborn baby.
Alena just recently graduated from high school and will virtually attend Arizona State University in the fall as a double major in astronomical and planetary science. She has dreams of one day working for NASA.
What makes Alena's story so remarkable is her current age....She's just 12.
Becky unpacks how Daphne navigated Alena's upbringing as a single parent. Daphne's calling from God to be a mother comes across loud and clear...and is an encouragement for other women. Becky also chats with Alena to find out how she maintains a healthy normal childhood while simultaneously thinking about solutions building a new generation of rockets!
Alena's remarkable story has been featured on numerous major media outlets where she is always ready to talk about her own initiative to help other young minority girls excel in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) academics as well. She calls it Brown Stem Girl and Becky dives in to discover more about that program as well.
Brown Stem Girl
Good Morning America article on Alena
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