Danette King

About the Author Danette King has been a fighter all of her life. Born July 30th 1974 in Chicago Il she has faced and overcame many adversities including coming from a broken family and entering the judicial system at a very young age. Danette currently had 7 children including one that's deceased. She had her first child at the age of 14 suffering multiple forms of abuse. Danette dedicated her life to changing the lives and views of the youth from today. She has done multiple services and giving countless donations to the Austin Township Community and had worked for other communities and Organizations to help establish a healthier living environment for today's urban youth. Through her love and passion for children and impoverished teens, she founded Young Creative Minds youth organization in 2007, which has etched quite a reputation within itself. She created and facilitated the infamous Westside spelling bee created within the Austin community this event carted to the Chicago public school district to promote literacy, awareness and good sportsmanship among peers, scholastic acceleration. YCM landscaping service to teenager that were either on probation or paroled has the option to complete their community service through this program and they also had a later opportunity to become employed for their services. And the community salutes concert series finding yet another innovative way to give back to her community. She orchestrated a free concert for under privileged children whom couldn't afford tickets to see their favorite artist. Just to name a few of her many attributes to her community. Danette uses her past pains as her strength in order to pave a road for children and young adults that has or are currently traveling a path that she has once traveled. From speaking of past pains from abusive and non-cohesive relationships to dealing one on one with Chicago under ground drug cartel she continue to inspire young women as well as young men.