The Teen Summit Posse featuring new hosts Ananda Lewis (center row, 4th from right), Prince DaJour (center row, 3rd from right) and On Jam segment host Fran Toliver (center row, 2nd from right). Teen Summit airs Saturdays at 12:00 p.m. with a repeat telecast at 8:30 p.m. on BET.
Posse Profiles
Dax Clinkacale:
Birthday: July 30, 1980
Age: 15
Hobbies: tennis, reading books
Talents: arts & crafts, electronics, acting
Goals: To attend college to be a actor.
"Really Though" .....
"Shoot for the top, cause the bottom is over crowded"
Vanya Francis:
Birthday: June 1,1995
Age: 16
Hobbies: dancing, performing, poetry, reading & working towards social change.
Talents: dancing and acting
Goals: Being successful in any and everything I do. However I plan to pursue a career in psychology or the field of communications .
"Really Though" .....
"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separate us. Don 't let your eyes deceive you. "
Sherese Melton:
Birthday: April 4, 1979
Age: 16
Hobbies: going to church for youth meetings & choir rehersal, attending school football and basketball games, shopping, movies, bowiling and skating.
Talents: singing, acting, dancing, writing poetry & short stories
Goal: To be an optometrist with a loving husband, beautiful big house and a Jaguar.
"Really Though".....
"Black is you, Black is me, Black is us, Black is we. "
Ranelle E. Sykes:
Birthday: October 30, 1978
Age: 17
Hobbies: public speaking, dancing, writing poetry
Talent: photograpghy
Goals: To be a photojournalist & to travel.
"Really Though".....
"68 inches above sea level, 98 million miles above these devils. "
Amchat Meter:
Birthday: January 16, 1980
Age: 16
Hobbies: maseauge
Talents: a date with Monica
Goals: To be a physical therapist & rap on some (any) album.
"Really Though".....
"If you dream ityou can achieve it, good things come to those that take em".
Kim Graves:
Birthday: October 31, 1979
Age: 16
Hobbies: dancing, acting, shopping, talking, writing
Talents: dancing, acting & writing
Goals: To become a successful actress, director and dancer.
"Really Though".....
"Music is your own experience, your toughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. "
Joe Webb:
Birthday: September 3, 1978
Age: 17
Hobbies: basketball
Talents: tap dancer, choreographer, actor
Goals: To be an entertainment lawyer, entertainer.
"Really Though"........
"Always keep it real "
Joherra Harris:
Birthday: March 30, 1978
Age: 17
Hobbies: writing and reading
Talent: acting, dancing
Goals: To be a news anchorman.
"Really Though" ...
"You have to learn to love yourself before you learn to love others, so do it!"
Jina Johnson:
Birthday: May 2, 1978
Age: 17
Hobbies: drama, public speaking, writing & poetry
Talents: the same as my hobbies
Goals: To be an actress, director and producer.
"Really Though".....
Jarmel Evans:
Birthday: March 12, 1981
Age: wouldn't tell
Hobbies: amateur playwriting and song writing
Talents: singing, dancing, and acting
Goals: drama teacher, professional gospel singer, model, playwrite and song writer.
"Really Though"......
"God is good so trust in him always and you will be blessed "
Jaben Early:
Birthday: March 15, 1979
Age: 16
Hobbies: writing, exploration of arts & culture, reading, freestyl'in
Talent: writing, acting, rapping and modeling
Goals: screen writer, historian, happiness in life
"Really Though"......
" This Dred Early says stay peace and keep spirit. Be Black stars representative of power. "
Tobi Brown:
Birthday: October28, 1975
Age: 19
Hobbies: jazz piano, drums, singing, basketball, movies, listing to music, writing music, composing music acting chillin'
Talents: I can make any one smile (see hobbies)
Goals: To take the music industry by storm.
"Really Though"....
"Keep your head up. Keep the wind to your back. And go out in a blaze of glory if you have to. "
Lauren Cooper:
Birthday: September 1, 1977
Age: 18
Hobbies: writing poetry, short stories, and creating
Talents: writing and bilengual speaks spanish
Goals: journalist, film maker, and directior
"Really Though".....
Daniel Winters:
Birthday: August 8, 1977
Age: 18
Hobbies: playing basketball, track, drawing
Talents: singing
Goals: To own a t.v. production buisness.
"Really Though"...
"What ever I want, I go after, and I try my best to get it"
BJ Colrman:
Birthday: August 26, 1980
Age: 15
Hobbies: playing the french horn, acting & reading
Talents: singing, acting, playing the piano
Goals: To become an actor and star with Whitney Houston.
"Really Though".....
"Put God before you and all things are possible "
Eric Irving:
Birthday: March 27, 1979
Age: 16
Hobbies: writing poetry, short stories and songs
Talents: writing and football
Goals: To own and run my own entertainment company (music production & distribution; television & movie production; clothing company; and publishing company).
"Really Though"....
"If you expect the best, expect stress. "
Heather Reynolds:
Birthday: April 29, 1976
Age: 19
Hobbies:
Talents:
Goals:
"Really Though"...
Jay Cooper:
Birthday: August 8, 1980
Age: 15
Hobbies: same as talents, superhero
Talents: sketching, painting, writing, superhero
Goals: to become a succesful buisness man & later go into politics, superhero.
"Really Though".....
"When reality becomes to real, close your eyes and dream "
Larry Brown:
Birthday: June 25, 1977
Age: 18
Hobbies: listing to music, acting, movies, watching tv, meeting people, going to social events & making speeches
Talents: acting, playing the saxaphone
Goals: To become an actor, director, producer in film and tv.
"Really Though".....
"Always believe in yourself; never give up because you can make it"
Lorielle Edwards:
Birthday: July 23, 1978
Age: 17
Hobbies: drawing & painting, dance, track, reading, hair styling
Talents: visual & performing arts except singing, playing piano and trumpet, very good at memorizing words and lines
Goals: To go to the college of my choice on a full scholarship, to be sucessful in acting, most importantly please God before I die.
"Really Though"..... "All people should start to learn what they are running from, where they are running to and why. "
Rashid Latif:
Birthday: March 24, 1980
Age: 15
Hobbies: reading, playing basketball
Talents: playing the drums
Goals:
"Really Though"....
"One Love!"
Terry Dawson:
Birthday: January 7, 1979
Age: 17
Hobbies: writing, acting, painting
Talents: writing, acting, entertainment as a whole
Goals: To be a tv writer & produce my own shows, to act in tv and movies.
"Really Though".....
Yendi Yarborough:
Birthday: January 28, 1979
Age: 17
Hobbies: reading, helping others, performing
Talents: acting, dancing, singing, and teaching
Goals: To pursue career in acting, directing, producing etc., to go to college major in acting and minor in education, and teach the workshops to help people like I was helped.
"Really Though".....
"With God and my parents by my side the best is yet to come"
