Meet Isaiah  

Hi my name is Isaiah Hubbard and I was born in Los Angeles and raised in San Diego California. I moved to San Diego when I was two years old. At the age of four I started playing basketball which was a major aspect in my life until the age of 17. During the time I played basketball I received multiple medals, awards, and trophies.

While playing I traveled to places such as Las Vegas, Anaheim, Los Angeles, and local areas around San Diego such as Alliant University Gym, The YMCA, and pretty much every high school in the South Bay and some in the San Diego Unified School District.
Another highlight of my life includes me always being involved in something to help shape who I am today. My Sophomore year of high school was a significant year to me because I participated in The AKA Debutante Ball as an escort.

Also, this is the year that I became a Blue Heart member, and my first day was at the 2018 signing day.

With my first day joining Blue Heart at the 2018 signing day, I experience Blue Heart at its finest. I say this because I saw a lot of leaders and young men who presented themselves in such an impressive way and the young men going off to college. 2018 is the year I joined blue heart and the year Kaori graduated.

Kaori is a former Blue Heart member and a big take away that I received from him was to never give up and push through any situation.

I related to this because we both played sports but stopped playing for different reasons. Even though he did not go to college for football like he would have liked he prevailed and now is at Morehouse College.

2019 is where I saw the most struggle and growth in myself. Blue Heart was a major contribution in helping me with my struggles. Even though there were many leaders in Blue Heart that helped me with my growth, I would say that Tracy was the most helpful. He was extremely hard on me whenever we got together as a group and never sugar coated anything.

Fast forwarding into 2020 I am getting ready to graduate and transition into a college, I am becoming more self-sufficient, making more decisions on my own, and most importantly becoming a young man.

With this said, Blue Heart has contributed to all four of those key points of my life. I would like to give thanks to Blue Heart for helping me get out of my comfort zone and giving me a place where I could relate to young black men like myself. I say this because before joining Blue Heart I never really hung out with a group of all black young men. I was always around mixed races or non-black.

Not saying that that is bad but it’s nothing like having a group of friends where everyone can relate, joke and talk about school the same.

So, in conclusion I would give my Blue Heart experience a ten out of ten.