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 Evette
Creighton
(Formally Evette Fantroy)
Miss Black Iowa 2008
At a young age, leadership qualities were
instilled in Evette by her parents and
community. She quickly learned how to speak in
front of large crowds with confidence and pose.
Through the modeling of her mother, Deretha
Fantroy, father, Carl Fantroy, and step-mother,
Clementine Fantroy, Evette internalized the
importance of being involved in her community at
an early age. At age 22, Evette, one of three
sisters, has always been deeply involved in
church. At Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Evette
was involved in Sunday School, the youth Usher
Board, the Youth Choir, Praise Team, the Adult
Choir, and The Lords Warriors Drill Team. She
participated in plays, skits, as well as dance.
Alongside her involvement at church, Evette was
also involved with activities at her school. At
Grant Elementary school, Evette was know as
“Evette the rapper” for her creative method
of promoting positive
change in her school and in her community.
During this time Evette also participated in AAU
girls basketball. At West Middle school, Evette
was awarded best D.A.R.E. essay. At Hoover
Intermediate School she participated in Track
and Field, and Girls Basketball. As a high
school student at Waterloo West High School,
Evette participated in girls basketball, the
Voices of Unity Gospel Choir, and the Voices of
Unity Step Team.
After finishing high school, Evette began her
educational path as a psychologist at Kirkwood
Community College. After two years she
transferred to a Historically Black
College/University (HBCU), Virginia State
University in Petersburg, VA where she was
recognized as top 15 in her class. In
Petersburg, Evette remained active in church,
where she participated in Praise Team, the
Choir, and also served as the music minister
assistant. After two semesters, Evette’s
educational path brought her back home where she
finished her BA in psychology at the University
of Northern Iowa.
Home again, Evette became an active young lady
in her community. She became a member of the
National Honors Society, and Society for Human
Resource Management (SHRM). Evette also began an
internship with Center For Disease Control (CDC)
at the University of Northern Iowa’s Iowa Export
Center on Health Disparities and Global Health
Corps. During this time she worked with Eastside
Ministerial Alliance (EMA) collecting
observational data. Evette also was an advocate
for minority health through the use of Health
awareness programs and health fairs as a portion
of her internship assignment. Furthermore,
during this time Evette provided the Waterloo
Fire Department with a report on their fire
safety program, Fire PALS, and assessed at-risk
youth at the Quakerdale S.H.A.R.K.S.
After
School
Program.
Her work at home began to blossom even more as
Evette announced her calling into the ministry.
Evette became the youth representative at Faith
Temple American Baptist Church, speaking on
behalf of youth at revivals and committee
meetings. She began to facilitate programs such
as Gospel Night Out for the Juneteenth
Celebration, and became involved in such
programs as S.H.O.U.T Ministries.
In her free time, Evette enjoys dancing, writing
poetry, and working on her book Flourishing
Women. Evette is currently a youth minister as
well as youth representative at Faith Temple
American Baptist Church. She is also the Youth
Facilitator for S.H.O.U.T. ministries and a
youth mentor for Kurt Warner Team F.U.N.
mentoring program.
Currently mastering in Industrial-Organizational
Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa,
Evette’s ultimate career goal is to become an
in-house consultant for a fortune 500 company.
After earning her masters, Evette hopes to
further her education in the field of divinity
at Central Seminary to achieve her goal of
becoming an ordained minister. Because of
Evette’s activity as a Youth representative and
facilitator, she has become aware of how much
young people are crying out for help. Evette
stands firm on the belief that in order to
change the world we must positively impact those
around us everyday. Through leadership,
modeling, and support we be a light to so many
around us. |
