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    • Our 2022 Impact & Inspiration Report
    • Our National Reach
    • Ascend Network Partner Directory
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2023 Ascend PSP Parent Advisors

These Parent Advisors join Ascend’s Postsecondary Success for Parents initiative (PSP) to help shape Ascend’s expanded agenda to improve higher education policy and practice for student parents. Parent Advisors, who are current or former student parents, will be leading voices in the growing movement to address the needs of the one in five college students in the U.S. raising children.

Nicole Alkire Grady

Sitting Bull College

Ignacio Angel Jr.

Santa Monica Community College

Cherrill Dominique Baker

West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology

Mikah Jorgensen

Triton College

Karlee Knuth

University of Texas at Tyler

Brittnee Marsaw

Family and Workforce Centers of America’s Skillup Program

Christian Ortiz

Hunter College

Isis Patterson

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Jessica Pelton

University of Michigan

Maria Isabel Ramos Martinez

University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

Kimberly Salazar

University of California, Berkeley

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