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In this Issue
From our CEO: Lessons from famous college dropouts
From Foster Child to Leader: Fria's Story
Champion of the Month: The MetLife Foundation
Lunch, interrupted: Justice Served
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From our CEO: Lessons from famous college dropouts
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Paul Schmitz, CEO 
 
From Foster Child to Leader: Fria's Story
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Fria Wilson grew up in 30 foster and group homes



As a child, Fria Wilson was bounced between 30 foster and group homes. Today, she's counseling children who face the same plight. Fria is a Public Ally who is demonstrating that everyone can lead.

 

She vividly recalls the day, years ago, when she was left alone with her baby twin brothers.  

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Champion of the Month
A Special Thank You

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Young artists at the Queens Museum of the Arts 

The MetLife Foundation awarded Public Allies a grant of $50,000 to sponsor 10 Allies working to increase children and families' access to the arts and prepare youth for successful lives and careers. The grant will support Allies serving at youth development and arts organizations in New York and Chicago. Thank you to our friends at the MetLife Foundation!  Read more » 

 

 
Cool Quote of the Month 

"When we give of ourselves to help others and we ameliorate situations of unfairness, or injustice, or poverty or degradation of any kind ... we move, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, toward the arc of justice."

 

Robert Burkhardt, of Eagle Rock School and Public Allies Colorado, in a conversation with Ally Stephanie Baker.

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Public Allies is a proud
member of the national service movement 

 
Allies in Service
Lunch, interrupted: Justice Served 
Treopia Washington accepts an honorary degree from Bowie State on behalf of her mother 






An unexpected visitor takes Ally Dara Goldberg back to 1951, when a woman was barred from attending her college graduation because of her race. 


Find out who the visitor was and why Dara calls the encounter "one of the best meetings of my life." Read story in Ally Snapshots blog» 
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Paul's radio interview with Tavis Smiley  Listen now »

A Chicago Ally is one of the poetry-slam competitors in this film 
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Delaware Public Radio features a Public Allies project in Wilmington 
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