President of St. John’s Eco Club hopes to become an environmental engineer
Caring for the environment is an issue close to the heart of Aziza Kennedy, a member of the class of 2026 at St. John’s College High School in Washington, D.C.
This fall, she will attend Georgia Tech, where she hopes to study civil engineering and perhaps minor in the Sustainable Cities program there. That program examines ways to create sustainable, environmentally friendly communities in urban areas.
“I’ve grown up in an urban area, so it’s close to my heart,” said Kennedy, an 18-year-old resident of Alexandria, Virginia, who is interested in becoming an environmental engineer.
The daughter of Christine and Adam Kennedy is an Orthodox Christian who has served as a peer minister at the coed Catholic high school sponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers. In that role, she helped lead retreats and student discussions, which she said helped her grow in her faith.
A freshman religion class project on creating a plan to help or impact the community inspired her to develop a composting program that the school adopted in her junior year. Now food scraps from the school’s kitchen and food waste from the cafeteria is collected and transported to a composting facility.