Last week, we sat down with Candace, my older sister. Not to be outdone, Sabrina wanted to stop by the pod herself! The youngest and brightest of us, she is in the midst of a Summer TA’ing an Art program at Sotheby’s in Ny before her Junior year at Trinity College. Codrington’s main medium is photography, though she enjoys painting as well and has recently added a minor in Art history. She speaks candidly about entering spaces previously foreign to her with a million eyes on her for reasons beyond her control. Between camp Walden and Andover, neither experience was anything like her day to day life at home. Speaking of, she left at 14 for Andover, where we spent one year there together. Though her time there was by no means easy, she had a hand in everything. From managing the basketball team to creating more art than ever before, she flourished. No accomplishment or decision may have been as important as her founding and running of the @blackatandover instagram page. The page examined the treatment of black and brown students on a microscopic level. She was ultimately rewarded by the school for her work, despite disagreements and backlash. Sabrina spent her first year of college at UAlbany, which she does not regret but did not enjoy. The positives including managing the basketball team once again, being a campus ambassador for Pink and honing in on being an Art major. But at the end of the day, it was not the place for her socially and the fit was less than ideal. 5 schools made up her transfer list, and Sabrina felt confident once her app was submitted. That confidence waned as schools began to deny her entry, but she held out for Trinity. She enters her Junior year as a studio art and English double major excited to get back to it, but not before finishing her TA summer! Recorded: 7.3.23
