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  <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">DJ Jeffries is a candidate for the University Innovation Fellows program, and an undergraduate in Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University (SIU). Jeffries is originally from Memphis, TN, where he lived until 2013 when he moved to New Orleans, LA for college at Loyola University. Growing up, DJ was heavily involved in music, learning to play seven instruments and going on to join the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national music fraternity.</span><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">In 2013, Jeffries became a recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, an award funded by Bill and Melinda Gates.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">Jeffries is passionate about communication, both as a discipline and as practice. This passion has led him to participate in multiple speakers' forums and public debates.</span>&nbsp;