Sierra Monet Jenkins, 25, affectionately known as “CC”, was born in Virginia on March 13, 1997 to Moniquekia Thompson and Maurice Jenkins, Jr.
CC attended Georgia State University, majoring in Journalism and a minor in African American Studies. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Journalism in December 2019.
After graduating, she was a freelance writer for Atlanta Magazine for two years. CC then became an editorial research intern with CNN for three months in the summer of 2020, and a news assistant with CNN Health from September to December 2020.
Sierra had been employed as a Journalist with The Virginian-Pilot for the past year as a breaking news reporter.
She was a faithful member of the National Association of Black Journalists and HER Campus at Georgia State University.
Sierra leaves to cherish her memories; mother, Moniquekia Thompson; father, Maurice Jenkins, Jr.; sisters, Auri Jenkins and Quinay Gatling; brothers, Dominique Jenkins and Quinton Gatling; grandparents, Pamela Jenkins, Yvonne and Patrick Thompson and Maurice Jenkins, Sr.; great grandparents, Betty Brown, Hortense Long, Jean Thompson and Lloyd Thompson and a host of other relatives and friends.
She was such an energetic, caring and giving person. She will truly be missed.
