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Yeardley Love was a vibrant University of Virginia lacrosse player when she was killed by her ex-boyfriend three weeks before […more…]

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By age 17, Xochtil Larios had experienced the foster care system, homelessness, and incarceration in juvenile hall for “like my […more…]

When Alyssa was 15, she came under court protection due to physical abuse. In the foster system, she endured 17 […more…]

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By the end of high school, Isaiah C. had already mapped out his future political career path. First, he’d get […more…]

Julie López played soccer for as long as she can remember. Growing up in a family of seven in Sylmar […more…]