"Attending an HBCU was truly the best decision I ever made."

Chelsea Fearce and her mother moved around Atlanta a lot. Sometimes shelter was an extended-stay hotel. More often, it was her mother’s car. She learned to survive on one meal a day. She stayed focused. She refused to let homelessness delay her ambitions...Her persistence and hard work slowly paid off. She graduated high school as valedictorian with a 4.5 grade point average. Spelman College awarded her a full scholarship. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors with a degree in biochemistry in 2017.