At sweet sixteen, Khalia Huggins-Simmons is a role model for youth in her school and community as she quietly influences others to engage in positive activities and give of their best.
She resides on the island of Nevis on Vervain Estate with her close knitted family. Khalia is intelligent, caring and respectful of others. From a young age, Khalia was eager to learn new things and always looked for ways to improve anything she did. She attended the Maude Crosse Preparatory School and graduated as Salutatorian. Currently, Khalia is a well-rounded fifth form student at the Charlestown Secondary School.
She enjoys reading, dancing, poetry, baking, acting and photography. In school, she loves learning about the human body and Tourism. Khalia believes that her dream to travel the world piqued her intense interest in Tourism. She strongly feels as though Tourism should become ‘everybody’s business,’ as the Premier of Nevis, the Honourable Mark Brantley likes to say.
She also understands its importance to her country and would do anything to help promote Nevis as the amazing island that it is. When her late grandfather, Wendell Huggins – a well-known educator on Nevis was alive, he was her inspiration and after his passing, Khalia tries to do her best in everything to continue his legacy.
Khalia loves meeting new people and creating new experiences and knows that she can and will accomplish anything that she puts her mind to.
