“No one understands your circumstances and how hard you have to work,” said Cary Martin Shelby, a law professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, of students who grow up in foster care. “We need to flip the narrative from 'you’re lucky to be here’ to ‘we need you here.’”
July 29, 2022 at 11:18 AM
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Cary Martin Shelby, a law professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, knows what it’s like to lack familial support while in college since she had been in foster care.
She didn’t receive care packages from home like her friends did, so Shelby is working on changing that for college students who have also been in foster care.
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