Roxley Pratt was born and raised in Sierra Leone where he received his primary and seconddary education in Sierra Leone. Toward the end of elementary school war broke out in the neighboring country; Liberia and spilled over to his country. While completing high school he saw an opportunity to start a business selling ice. This was a lucrative venture.
Pratt’s initial success encouraged him to look forward with plans to open a cab business, a fishing boat company and hopefully later a hotel chain. Unfortunatley, the continued conflict directly affected his family in May 1997 and forced them to flee to Gambia as refugees. Following a year of processing through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) the family resettled to the United States.
Pratt realized his dream of enlisting in the US Marine Corps in 2000 after one year in the U.S. He was activated after the September 11 attack and was deployed for about two years in Iraq.
Upon his return from his tour, he completed an Associates degree at West Los Angeles College and a Bachelor’s degree at Western Michigan University. He returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment and completed an Associates in Theater Arts at Santa Monica College. He was accepted to the University of Southern California (USC) in the Master of Business for Veterans program at the Marshall School of Business and has less than one semester to complete his graduate degree in business.
Pratt enjoys traveling to indigenous locations, acting, writing and business as well as the beach and adventurous activities. He has dabbled in stand-up comedy and hopes to do more in the future.
Pratt is enthusiastic about completing the USC Ross Minority Program in Real Estate as he has been searching for this type of real estate training for some time and looks forward to gaining as much knowledge as possible from the instructors and practitioners as well as from the networking opportunities. More importantly, he looks forward to completing the course and receiving his certificate to make a socio-economic impact in communities locally and nationwide.
Email: Roxley.Pratt@gmail.com