LIFESTYLE AUTHOR
Sadie Flynn
PHOTOGRAPHY
Allen Peters
MAKING AUSTIN STRONGER WITH SEKOYA WADDY n Meet Sekoya Waddy, a fitness instructor with Stronger Austin – a program of the
IT’S TIME TEXAS nonprofit – which helps make physical exercise accessible to all.
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t’s easy to immediately think of essential workers like nurses and firefighters when talking about those who serve and support our community. However, Stronger Austin plays an important role in serving the fitness family of Austin. Powered by IT’S TIME TEXAS (among other philanthropic powerhouses), Stronger Austin delivers free online and in-person trainer-led fitness classes and
JANUARY 2022
nutrition education programming to Texans. This offering removes financial barriers facing vulnerable communities – allowing for the pursuit of health and fitness to be accessible to all. What’s more, the structure of their offerings make transportation a non-issue by offering classes virtually through Zoom or in-person at community sites like schools, recreation centers, parks, churches and clinics planted at widely accessible corners of
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Central Texas and beyond. In the spirit of support and servitude, I wanted to feature one of Stronger Austin’s electric, excitable and enthusiastic fitness instructors, Sekoya Waddy – a 35-year-old developer/engineer by day but a dance instructor by night. Waddy leads MixxedFit classes, a dance fitness program blending explosive dance moves with bootcamp style weightlifting.
