IMC Student Wins Second Runner-up in the Dan Collins Scholarship Awards

The Dan Collins Scholarship Award, was established in 2017 in memory of businessman, Dan Collins, who passed away from cancer in 2005. This year’s second runner-up is Lily Sweet King, who is studying integrated marketing communications.

King is the founder of The Longest Table, a community event she created, fund-raised, and hosted for over 120 peers from high schools in Leon County in Tallahassee, Florida. The goal of these events is to bring people of different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds together to share a meal and stories.

King brought The Longest Table to the University of Mississippi, working with the school chancellor to host the university-wide event during the spring of 2019. The event was so successful, the chancellor said it would become an annual UM event.