Posted by: Mishka Gilkes, 2010 Tulip Queen

Hi everyone!

Since being crowed Tulip Queen I have been having such a wonderful time attending numerous tulip events and meetings with my court. As many of you know I am a Graduate student at SAGE, and work full- time for the AIDS Council of North Eastern New York, thus I am always busy. However, I have found time to dwell in my royal duties and am enjoying every minute of it. The court and I have been very busy implementing our 2010 literacy initiative project under Mayor Jennings literacy campaign. So far we have collaborated with 15 love in judging their Jamboree and the City Mission to bring book bags and school supplies to underprivileged youth. In an effort to continue outreach to the Albany Youth, this coming school year we will began collaboration with the Albany’s Boys & Girls Club and TOAST Elementary school. We are very excited about our new and future endeavors and are looking forward to becoming tangible role models to the Albany Youth.