Christelle Jean is a strong activist and who has a powerful voice in the Malden community. In the last four years of attending Malden High School, she has done a lot and that includes being part of the Student Council, the Black Culture Club, the Step Team and many other extracurricular activities at Malden High School.
Though being part of the Student Council for her class had been quite an experience, it was educational and it showed Jean what it takes to cooperate with people and create a positive working environment, which overall made her get to know her classmates better.
“It takes a lot of effort to create plans that would satisfy the needs of the different students at Malden High School,” Jean said.
Jean’s student council position gave her many things: an opportunity to interact with the students at Malden High School, a lot of “access to not only the students that were there, but the teachers and administrators,” and the different kinds of people gave her a chance to get to know her school.
Jean is passionate about students and even went on to say that the desire to benefit her class was the most important to her. She believes that the student council prepared her for interactions with people that she will have in a workplace.
Jean has also taken the time to get to know herself these past four years at Malden High School. She is a lot more confident in her opinions and ability to express them.
“If you don’t speak up, it’s like a closed mouth that does not get fed,” Jean went on to say. “You have to actively get your input in to see the results that you’d like to see.”
Jean said that she would have wanted to be a little “more outgoing and participate more in activities” but she “was a lot more scared in freshman year.”
Her advice to any upcoming highschooler was to point out that “people are not watching you as often as you think they are.”
The biggest accomplishment of her high school career was being able to do a silent march during the summer of 2020. During quarantine, being able to gather the Malden community was really important not only to Jean but also to the city. It is something that Jean says she will “never be able to forget.”
