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Getting to Know DC’s Own Tsehaitua “Tubi” Retta

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When Tsehaitu “Tubi” Retta was growing up in Columbia, MD, she had dreams of becoming the nation’s first Black female President. “People used to laugh at me and I would get so frustrated. In my head, I’d be like, okay, watch.
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You’ll see,” she recalls-and we just might. Driven with a passion for policy and justice, this Fall Tubi (pronounced “Too-bee”) will be studying Law at the University of Maryland. She currently works for the NAACP’s National Director of the Youth and College Division. “Pretty much this whole summer I’ve been helping to plan the [NAACP] Annual Convention in New York.

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