Jessica Roberts
CEO, Luminary Learning Network Denver
I feel very blessed that I grew up getting to travel and getting to see the world and getting to have a lot of life experiences. Many of the students I taught and I work with on a daily basis don't have those experiences and they don't see a life beyond high school. That changes the trajectory of your life. The statistics show the higher your education, the better off you're going to be in the long run.
And so I think everyone should have the belief in themselves that they can excel, that they can go to college, that they can go to technical school, that they can do something that their parents didn't do, and that they should have access to those things. I think that drives me.
I think my kids drive me because I want them to have those same things, but in our family, we have generations of people that have gone to college and have this experience. And so what drives me more is seeing the kids that they go to school with, that that's not the norm or they don't have parents there pushing them. If the family isn't there to support them, I really believe it's the school's role to provide that community and help that student realize what they can achieve.
