Eriker A.Fortenberry Purnell

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My family said that I look so much like my father, my father passed away when I was 12, And now that I am older, I look like his brother. My aunt showed me a picture of my late grandmother and I look exactly like like her as a younger woman, and she was Indian and black, finding out my history was life changing.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

You are a princess and you deserve all that life has for you, so go and get it

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would pay off my mother’s house, she has been the driving force in my life, always having my back and pushing me to be a better version of myself . Never taking no for an answer, because after so many No’s there is a Yes. She is one of the strongest women I know, raising her three children, then raising three of her granddaughters, I am so proud of all the accomplishments she has achieved. Went back to school and got her GED, then got her CDL’ s to provide for her children al