Brendan Creamer
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In her HeraldNet op-ed, 2022 Ascend Fellow, Roxana Norouzi, discusses the important role that powerbuilding from community organizations has in electi...
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Today, Ascend at the Aspen Institute announced that eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (T...
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Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin was taught to always take care of those around her, but didn’t always see education as a way of doing so After dropping out...
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Drayton Jackson experienced homelessness for almost 20 years. Today, Drayton utilizes his lived experience to advocate for others in a similar positio...
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Soren’s interest in higher education has always been rooted in an interest in the environment, even from childhood. As an adult, after struggling wi...
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Ignacio Angel has decided to define for himself what success looks like as a college student and father of four. The for-profit trade school he went t...