The Difference Mentoring Can Make

The Difference Mentoring Can Make

Jean Dolin is a communications major who is completing his degree through the Duet program at Southern New Hampshire University. He is finishing his program this year and wants graduate school to be his next step. Jean attributes much of his success to his...
Learning Together Through Mentorships

Learning Together Through Mentorships

As a Dean at Tufts, Jean Herbert noticed that students with connections to “a more experienced voice” succeeded more frequently than students who did not. Through mentoring Edzana with Alray, she’s learned that mentorship helps the mentor grow, too. Jean Herbert made...
Mentoring the Next Generation

Mentoring the Next Generation

As a doctoral candidate at Harvard, the president of the Harvard Graduate council, and the Chair of a section at the American Public Health Association, Bryan Buckley uses his skills and shares them with his mentee, Jean. “My grandpa always said that we have two...
Working as Two Adults

Working as Two Adults

Ayesha is attending UMass Boston. Janet owns her own business. After taking many years off from school to raise her four children, Ayesha says “I’m ready to get my degree and get my career back on track.” Her mentor, Janet Taylor, was drawn to mentoring when Alray’s...
Step by Step

Step by Step

A.J. Browder is attending UMass Boston. A.J’s mentor John Braga worked at the Boston Public Schools for over a decade and is currently an administrator/educator at the Somerville Public Schools.  A.J. says he looks forward to getting “in-person help, step by...
Better Myself and Inspire Son

Better Myself and Inspire Son

Valesha Lewis is attending Massasoit Community College. Alray’s first graduate, Keyana Washington, will mentor her. Valesha is inspired to go back to school by her son. “Before I had my son, I kept giving up,” She says. “Now, I want to better myself and inspire him.”...