“I can talk to the students who waited to go to school and reassure them that this was a good decision. I can let them know that there is no right time to get a higher education, only their time.”
That’s the advice first-gen student Selena Bush, a senior at Roosevelt University in Chicago, gives others as a student advisor, one of the multiple jobs she manages in addition to her full-time undergraduate coursework.
We share her story in the powerful photo essay,
“I Had to Choose Myself” : a First-Gen Story, photographed by Chicago-based freelance photographer D.W. Johnson, with narrative by the Chronicle senior editor Alexander C. Kafka. Read her journey, and discover how it led her in, out, and back into higher ed.
