She graduated last summer. Oprah Winfey gave her a chutzpah award and she met Bill Clinton. She has talked at evens alongside Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama. She talks to teenagers about resisting the temptations of drugs and gangs. She also urge them not to use childhood hardship as an excuse not to take opportunities.
She doesn’t want her appearance now and he Harvard degree to fool anyone: “I was one of those people on the streets you walk away from