Yale Grad Back to Chicago

Photo from Chicago Tribune/Alex Garcia

A 22-year-old Yale student from the Chicago projects plans to move back to her hometown after graduation this May to help other kids in low income neighborhoods succeed.

The Chicago Tribune has a story highlighting Timeica Bethel.  As a child, she was raised by her grandmother because her Mom was addicted to drugs.  She lived in a neighborhood where violence, and drugs were the norm.  Despite all this, Bethel still managed to get into (and succeed at) an ivy league school.  

Now she wants to use her story to prove to other kids that hard work and determination can get them where they want to be. She'll be teaching through the "Teach for America" program.  Here's what she told the Tribune:

"I want to be the one to say, 'You think Yale is impossible, but it's not.'"

Check out the full story in The Chicago Tribune:  Timeica Bethel goes from Chicago's housing projects to Ivy League and back