NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 08: Megan Thee Stallion attends Glamour Celebrates 2021 Women of the Year Awards on November 08, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for Glamour)
A 26-year-old Grammy winner said she intends to stay true to her word and open an assisted living community in her hometown of Houston, as well as provide employment opportunities to recent college graduates.
The day after earning an undergraduate degree in health administration from Texas Southern University in Houston, Megan Thee Stallion told Rolling Stone magazine that she hopes to use her degree to open senior living communities.
She revealed her philanthropic plans in 2019, initially telling People magazine she wanted to be a nurse or a hospital administrator. But her successful career as a rap artist led her to pivot her plan to opening a senior living community and hiring her classmates to run it.
She told People that she was inspired to obtain a degree in healthcare by her late mother, Holly Thomas, who died in 2019 from brain cancer.
“I’m still going to open up these assisted living facilities, and I definitely want to hire new college graduates,” she told Rolling Stone. “Nobody ever wants to hire you fresh out of college. They feel like you have no experience, so I want to create a place where you can get experience.”
Stallion was awarded the 18th Congressional District’s Humanitarian Award the same weekend she graduated. She also launched the Don’t Stop Scholarship Fund in 2020, giving two women of color $10,000 each to pursue their college degrees. Additionally, she funded a full-ride scholarship for one student at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment at Long Island University.
