A day in the life: ASA Singleton

MBK Alliance
Changemakers
Youth

Fighting for a Brighter Future

When Asa Singleton joined ReDirect (Opens in a new tab) —an MBK Houston organization focused on giving young people with juvenile records a second chance—he earned a fresh start and awakened his passion to do more to help others in his community and beyond. As an MBK Youth Ambassador , Asa wants to help other young men get the same opportunities he’s gotten through MBK—and uses boxing as a way to do it.

“ I want to help others avoid the situation I was blessed to not have to endure.”
–Asa Singleton

3 young men, the main subjects of the photo, have a conversation. The setting is a boxing gym. They are of medium to deep skin tones and casual athletic attire on mixed with boxing gear. — Now eighteen years old, Asa first got involved with My Brother's Keeper when he was fourteen as an intern for a city councilmember.

A man with medium-deep tone skin, a light green durag and red boxing gloves, looks into a ring with red white and blue boarders. In the photo frame are a pair of light-medium toned legs in fighting stance and a deep toned leg also in a fighting stance. Both have casual athletic attire on. — After making some bad choices earlier in his life, Asa got involved with ReDirect, a program created by MBK Houston to divert young people away from the criminal justice system.

A arm and hand, that is medium-deep toned, in focus of the camera. The hand is being wrapped in red boxing tape. — Asa began boxing as a part of ReDirect’s programming, and is now on his way to becoming a professional boxer.

A group of young men are doing sit ups in a gym. A young man with medium skin tone is in focus in the photo. He has a light green durag on, a scrunched face, an olive shirt, and camo shorts. Wrapped around his hands is red boxing tape. — "It’s helped me open doors that I didn’t know I could open.”—Asa Singleton on the impact of MBK

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