Alesha Jones-Seabrooks remembers being a young girl growing up in Jacksonville. Along with her classmates at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, she d throw wads of crumpled paper out her school bus window on the drive past Edward Waters College on Kings Road to her mother s Washington Heights apartment.
One day, in an effort to keep the kids in line, a police officer spoke to the group of paper-throwers. Be careful, you may become the queen of that college one day, Jones-Seabrooks recalls the officer telling her. She wrote it off, convinced she d attend an arts college in Hollywood. By 1994, that prophecy came true.