AURORA | Navee Essien has grown up keenly aware of her gifts.
More times than she can count, people have reminded the senior at Aurora’s Rangeview High how fortunate she is to have a close family and strong support system, academic and athletic talent, ease making friends, and the kind of smarts, beauty and confidence that make people say damn, no way that girl is 17.
By those measures, she knows she is approaching adulthood…