The campus connector
Mya Grimes has a system.
And she needs one.
Because when Mya helps other Jackson State students connect to Entergy's Power of Prosperity Program — and we're not exaggerating when we say there have been hundreds — she does a lot more than simply telling people to tap in.
It starts on social media, where Mya creates her own campaigns to put her peers onto opportunities worth paying attention to, complete with step-by-step instructions on how to get involved.
Then there's her spreadsheet. You know, the one where she tracks students' progress through the application process. To Mya, this isn't going above and beyond. It's just common sense.
"So when they ask, 'What happens next?' I can help them through what the process looks like," she explains, like it's no big deal.
Then there are her homemade FAQs. They live in her Notes app, ready whenever another text, DM, or conversation between classes turns into a question about the program.
It may sound like a lot. For Mya, it's just part of the routine. Because at Jackson State, she's become the person people go to for answers. And a reputation like that doesn't come from nowhere.
Mya Grimes is everywhere on campus, doing everything.
On top of being a student, she's a Division I track and field athlete, a student leader, and the founder of Triple Threat, an organization dedicated to helping students get the most out of college. As Mya sees it, there are three pillars of the college experience: earnings, enrichment, and extracurriculars. Triple Threat is built around helping students maximize all three. And when we say she wrote the book on making the most of your college experience, that's not hyperbole. She actually wrote the book.
"I think I have always been like this," she says.
So when a professor shared information about Entergy's Power of Prosperity Program, Mya immediately recognized something familiar. The program offers a free investing account, educational resources, and $100 to help students get started investing. To Mya, it spoke directly to one of Triple Threat's core pillars: earnings.
"Making the most of your college experience is more than just going to class," she says. "It's really tying in three pillars — earnings, enrichment, and extracurriculars — that really make the trajectory of what your college could be."
For Mya, that means taking opportunities to strengthen your financial future seriously. But there was another reason she connected with the program.
"Knowing that this was focused on HBCUs made a difference," she says.
It wasn't just an opportunity to invest. It was an opportunity designed with students like her in mind.
Helping other students navigate the program also meant navigating it herself. Before Power of Prosperity, she'd never really had the chance to experience investing firsthand either.
"It's one thing to sit in the classroom and learn about what this looks like," she says. "It's another thing to have it in the palm of my hand on my phone and to see the money grow."
Watching her own experience unfold and fielding questions from hundreds of students helped her recognize a pattern.
"What typically holds students back from investing is probably the misconception that it's more complicated than it really is," she says. "When you hear about investing, it can seem so complex. And when you don't have information or a background in it, students will steer away from it."
It wasn't that students didn't want to invest in their futures. If anything, Mya found the opposite. The program appealed to all kinds of students. A student photographer thinking about new income streams. Aspiring entrepreneurs sketching out business plans between classes. Anyone looking for ways to turn today's opportunities into tomorrow's options.
The ambition was never the problem. What students needed was someone they trusted to help them get started.
"Having a track record of over 400 students that I've helped sign up to vouch for the program has been the most beneficial when people have questions," Mya says.
They knew she wasn't speaking from a script. She'd opened the account herself. Worked through the questions. Figured it out firsthand. Mya was more than happy to be that person.
Today, investing is top of mind for Mya.
Part of that comes from where she sees her future heading. She dreams of growing Triple Threat beyond Jackson State and expanding its reach to even more students.
"I'm dreaming about continuing to grow my global initiative Triple Threat and receiving funding for that initiative," she says. "Being able to pour into students on a wider scale than I've even done now is really what I'm looking forward to in the future."
For Mya, investing is becoming part of that vision.
Both of her parents are entrepreneurs, and conversations about earning, spending, and building something of your own were always present. Investing, though, felt different. It wasn't something she'd had the opportunity to experience firsthand until the Power of Prosperity program.
Now, she sees it as another tool she can use to build the future she wants.
"I see this as something I continue to do long term," she says. "I see the benefit in it now as a college student, and as I continue my career, I know that things could look even better in the future."
That's one of the things Mya appreciates most about the program Entergy made possible.
It didn't just introduce students to investing as a concept. It gave them a chance to become investors themselves. And for students who may have never seen themselves in that role before, that opportunity can change the way they think about what's possible.
Because when Mya thinks about financial security, she doesn't describe luxury or excess. She talks about peace.
"When a person has financial security, they unlock peace," she says. "It helps people know a little bit of weight on their shoulders can be taken off."
For someone juggling athletics, leadership, entrepreneurship, and plans to expand Triple Threat beyond campus, that peace isn't the end goal – it's what creates room for her to keep building.
After all, Mya's system was never really about spreadsheets, FAQs, or social media campaigns. It's about seeing an opportunity, taking it seriously, and making sure other people know about it too.
That's how she approaches leadership. It's how she built Triple Threat. And now, it's how she approaches investing.
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