Opening eyes through art
Georgia State University graduate student Jessica Blinkhorn's graphite drawings are no bigger than 5x7 inches, but the impact they deliver is immense. Take her piece Grasp, a recreation of a memory from when she was three years old, the last time she remembers walking without assistance.
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College of Ed trains Teach For America members
When she entered college, Nydia Simon thought she wanted to be an attorney, arguing case law in the courtroom. But after a year in the Teach For America-Atlanta program, Simon discovered her place is in the classroom, shaping young minds.
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
When Warrick Dunn was just 18, his mother, a Baton Rouge, La., police officer was killed, leaving his grandmother to support him and his siblings. Dunn's grandmother, Willie Wheeler, was there to support him again as he spoke to a group of grandparents raising grandchildren at a monthly meeting for Georgia State University's Project Healthy Grandparents.
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A Welcoming Face at GSU
Junior Shanté Lewis gives campus tours, helps with orientation and runs her own student group.
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