By: Deborah Barge, Chief Development Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Each January, National Mentoring Month celebrates the people who guide our paths, support our journeys, inspire our next steps: mentors. As you think about your own journey, who was the person — or people — who shined a light upon your path at a time you needed it most? Have you ever told them what a difference they made?
One of my first mentors was a friend of my parents. He saw more promise in me than I, at that time, saw in myself — a young brown girl from a rural community. He didn’t know what my future would hold, but he believed that I could and should go to college, and not just any college, but a leading private college two states away. He proactively reached out to a Dean of the school to make a
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