Tulane University senior Jeramey Anderson was recently elected to the Mississippi State Representatives. At 22, he will be the youngest person ever to serve in the state legislature.
“My ultimate goal is to run for president of the United States,” says the 22-year-old Tulane University senior, who was sworn in recently as the youngest person ever elected to the Mississippi state legislature. “In the short term, I eventually plan to get elected to Congress and use that as a stepping stone to get to the White House.”
Ambitious? Perhaps, but it’s that kind of self-confidence that helped the Gross Point, Miss. native defeat seasoned politician Aneice Lidell in a Democratic run-off last November for state representative.
Now, with a new legislative session scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, Anderson — who is majoring in homeland security and public relations at Tulane’s Gulf Coast campus in Biloxi — says that he will take just two online courses this semester so that he can focus on the issues that impact his constituents.
And he says that one of his priorities will be to fight for more dollars for the state’s HBCUs.
“We need to talk to some of these presidents and deans at HBCUs to see how we can generate more funding for these universities through legislation,” says Anderson. “I understand that I don’t know everything, but we need to get everyone at the table so that we can reach a consensus.”
To this end, Anderson has requested to serve on the legislature’s Universities and Colleges Committee where he says he will be a fierce advocate for higher education across the state.
