Who is Elijah Okon?
What makes me DC is my parents origin. One side of my fathers family grew up here and my mother moved here to attend college. They met while attending Howard University. As for me, I’ve been here all my life. While here I’ve played lots of sports including, football, basketball, and baseball, before settling on track and soccer. I’ve been running track for about a year and I’ve been playing soccer since I was 3. These sports have enabled me to meet all sorts of people all throughout DC and travel throughout the DMV area. Though I love soccer, track makes me feel more connected to the city as there is a larger black presence in track than there is in soccer, despite this fact some of my oldest friends come from soccer and it too has given me the opportunity to meet people from multiple different cultures. This is important because DC is often called a melting pot of different cultures and peoples. It is for all of these reasons that I am DC.
