Kendall Ford is a recent graduate of Stanton College Preparatory School where he served as the Senior Class President and former Freshman Class Vice President. On top of maintaining a 4.7 GPA, he sang tenor in their advanced chorale, was a staff writer for the Devil’s Advocate -the school’s student-run newspaper, presided over the American Sign Language club, and was a member of Black Student Union, Multicultural club, and seven honor societies. With a passion for environmental conservation, as an Eagle Scout he installed bat houses around his home city of Jacksonville, FL to mitigate habitat loss due to local deforestation. He also performed extensive research on PFAS and heavy metal contamination in red lined areas as a member of the Jacksonville Youth Environmental Council. At the frontlines of youth environmental conservation, he spent a month in Yellowstone working for their Youth Conservation Corps and has devoted three years to Groundwork Jacksonville where he works with their youth apprenticeship program. As a recent graduate, he is matriculating to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He hopes to use his time as a ResilienSEA extern to meaningfully devote his gap year to environmental causes.