As a girl growing up in Haiti, Guylaine Saint Juste lacked for nothing. She was surrounded by a strong family and community in Port au Prince. She remembers fee...
Elizabeth Shea’s parents always taught her independence from the time she was a little girl.
When she was 12, Elizabeth’s family left Vermont to move to Oreg...
Jennifer Siciliano didn’t have any idea what she’d like to be when she left for college at Marymount University in Virginia. Both of her parents were educators,...
Julie Simmons never planned to start her own business. After years of hard work, things were falling into place for her professionally. She was leaving a stable...
Sunny Singh’s father was granted asylum in the U.S. in 1988, a few years after religious riots threw parts of India into chaos, parts that were traditionally pe...
In early 2018, Dondi Strong was at work when news of the Matt Lauer sexual harassment scandal broke. In that moment, an idea struck her: “What if there was a re...
Growing up, Fred Westerlund didn’t dream about going to West Point. Although his grandfathers had served in the military, he never thought seriously about joini...
In May of 2012, Adham Yusupov had a map of his future. He’d just graduated from George Mason University, and in April he’d taken the LSAT and scored a 162. The ...
