Hi! I am Legacy Jackson. I am 14 years old, and from St.Louis, Missouri . As a 14 year old I have many expectations to live up to. At only 14 years old I am: published author, competitive dancer, news reporter for the New Real STL news, an owner of a 50lc3 community service organization, Girl Scout media team member, a youth advocate for iHeart Radio, and a girl boss. In your free time you should go follow me on instagram @thelegacyjackson and watch me on the Drew Barrymore Show. Journalism is definitely a career that interests me, anything that has to do with being in front of a camera interests me.
My passion for journalism started when I was about 5 years old. I had my first opportunity to go on Fox 2 news to talk about selling Girl Scout Cookies. We went to the station and my mom had to literally pull me out of the building. Who knew that I wanted to be in front of a camera that bad. Just about three weeks later I was invited to join the Girl Scout media team. That team has provided me with many opportunities, I got to, and still am practically the face of GSEM ( Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri). And now we are at the Fox 2 new station just about every other week recording different segments. I started doing this at the age of 5 and now I am 14. Now when we go to the station I am known. I don’t only go there for only GSEM I go there to talk about all of the amazing things that I have going on in my life.
I am also on the Youth POV board for iHeart Radio. On this segment we discuss different topics that we feel are important to us as kids. The age of this team varies so that everyone can be heard. Also from this engagement we gain siblings. People that are there to help us through our ups and downs in life. These people are also there to support each other.
I plan to become a news anchor woman when I grow up. I want to be at the news station as much as possible when I am older. But I want to be able to create my own segment on the news where kids that are doing positive things around the world can be highlighted. I feel that young entrepreneurs like me should have a chance to get the spotlight on them. Since we are living in a world were so many negative things are happening. I feel that we need to know that there are positive people that are here, maybe even sitting right next to you. What I would call it is “ordinary kids doing extraordinary things.” Another way I am getting my word out about this topic is I am doing a TEDx Talk. Where I will be talking to a room full of people and motivating them to do amazing things. My love for this topic came from me owing my own 50lc3 — Little Legacies Community Service Organization — which I am the founder of. Little Legacies helps kids get involved with community service. We do a different community service project every month. It is operated by kids: we pick, plan, and do the projects. Parents only over see it.
I have had many setbacks in life but I choose to not let them get the best of me. One of my major setbacks was when I lost my brother at the age of 19. Brendon pasted away from Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. This had to be one of the most traumatizing things that has ever happened to me. But instead of letting that incident get me down I chose to write a book in memory of him — Bubbles for Brendon — now every where we go we blow bubbles for him. This book is about coping skills from A-Z. It is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Half of the proceeds from this book actually go towards JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). This company tries to find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes.
Everyone is going to have major setbacks and challenge that we have to overcome but instead of letting it get us down we should be able to make that motivate us to get better.
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