This past June, 2011, Tia delivered the graduation commencement address to the Unidad of Miami Beach & the New Generation Leadership and Workforce Institute’s (NGLWI) graduating class. Tia is also involved with children and looks to help out in way that she can. This year, Tia plans to take her Driven to Read program to the next level, which teaches kids the importance of reading and its kinship to racing. It will be centered around her new comic book series that is being developed by the renowned Reginald Byers.
“We will make time for any program that’s positive,” Tia says. Tia’s goal is to teach young people — especially females — that it can be done, and “it” is not solely limited to racing either. Her motto, “Get right or get left,” as she proudly exclaims to me, is a daily motto, not merely a clever tagline.
While Tia has learned to live in the moment, she realizes the implications of her career and will stop at nothing to earn her NASCAR stripes. Even though she’s the only black female licensed in the sport, she welcomes more minorities to get involved and become drivers, pit crew member and even engineers.
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