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Special Series: Education Advocate Follows her Dream
Adriana Aguilar spent much of high school wondering how she would be able to go to college. The prospects did not look promising. Her parents, undocumented immigrants, had little money for tuition, and...
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Special Series: Chicago Teen Stands Up for Jobs
Once, the idea of standing in front of a crowd terrified Darius Anderson. A shy boy, he’d long stuttered in public, but at age 13, after joining a Boys-to-Men program run by Kenwood Oakland Community...
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Special Series: Youth Works to Change ‘Unjust’ Policies
Like many young people, Lorren Dangerfield has a finely-honed sense of injustice. By the time she won the Shriver Award at age 17, Lorren had already spent four years working to stop industrial...
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Special Series: A Young Man Finds a ‘Common Purpose’
At age 19 and after living in the United States for 10 years, Alejandro Guizar Lozano faced the possibility of being deported to Mexico, a country that he left as a child. That would have meant being...
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Seeds of Hope: Baltimore Program Supports Youth and Dreams
For 30 years, The Choice Program at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has supported Baltimore City youth, including young people facing poverty. Each year, about 50 AmeriCorps volunteers...
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