This post is part of a series of posts celebrating students who are making it to and through college with the support of the KIPP charter school network’s Through College program. The United States...
One of the hardest things I’ve had to do was to hit the submit button on my application to Spelman because that means leaving home. My mom raised my older sister, younger brother and me by herself....
This post is part of a series of posts celebrating students who are making it to and through college with the support of the KIPP charter school network’s Through College program. With a name like...
It was not easy growing up in a hospital. I was born around the time when my 13-year-old brother was referred to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his ankle....
“I could never make it there,” they said. “I am just not smart enough,” they explained. Those were some of the comments I heard from students in my high school teacher's Spanish class. I was back in...