UMBC: Intensive Advocacy
Intensive Advocacy White House commission summit at UMBC promotes academic success for at-risk youth, highlighting The Choice Program. For college senior Imhotep Simba, helping youth find their own path to success comes down to three things: encouragement, exposure, and mentorship. Growing up in Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood, Simba says, he didn’t have a sense of possibility or opportunity, but The Choice Program at UMBC changed that. Simba, who will graduate from Coppin State University in May, spoke from his perspective as an alumnus of The Choice Program to a standing-room-only crowd that filled UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery on February… Continue Reading UMBC: Intensive Advocacy