Areshia is the middle child, of four sisters. Her career in theater and entertainment began in Atlanta, GA, where she grew up and spent most of her life. She attended the Northside High School of Performing Arts in Atlanta, and also performed with their International Musical Theater Touring Show. Northside is also the Alma Mater of actress, singer and dancer Jasmine Guy, and world-renowned choreographer Travis Payne. Areshia most recently received rave reviews for her stunning performance in segments from Charlayne Woodard’s Pretty Fire at the 2006 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge awards ceremony in Orlando, FL in late April. In the fall of 2005 she originated the role of Selulah Pearl in the musical Pearls Gone Blue by Leslie Kramer. In spring of 2005 she appeared along side Tatum O’Neal in the Liberty Artist Studios feature film My Brother scheduled for release in fall 2006. Before going to study in New York Areshia was fortunate enough to work on UPN’s mega successful sitcom The Parkers, as well as on Lifetime Television’s Any Day Now. She appeared in Merv Griffin Production’s The Dating Game and CBS’s 1-hour medical drama Chicago Hope. This May Areshia will receive her Master of Fine Arts in Acting degree from Columbia University. At Columbia she was awarded the Richard and Mica Hadar Foundations Fellowship for outstanding achievements in the arts. Columbia provided her the opportunity and honor of working with theater greats Kristen Linklater and Andrei Serban as well as a host of other widely talented and acclaimed faculty and staff. Prior to coming to Columbia Areshia attended the Michael Howard Conservatory. She is a proud alumna of Hampton University where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History. After completing graduate school Areshia will continue to pursue a professional acting career. She hopes to work on Broadway, film and television. The words of the late Honorable Benjamin E. Mays Jr. wholly describes Areshia’s philosophy on her life and her work, “The tragedy in life does not lay in not reaching your goals, but rather it lays in having no goals to reach, for low aim is sin, shun it”