By: Mark Kelly
Growing up near Virginia’s Atlantic Coast, in what she describes as “a challenging environment” that included being homeless for a time at the age of 15, Kai Frazier developed an interest in history.
Over time, she also came to understand that her future, as well as those of her classmates and millions of other children across the country, was limited by a lack of access to learning opportunities, such as field trips and other hands-on experiences, due to disparities in funding and material support.
“I didn’t have many resources,” Frazier recalled about her childhood in the 1990s and early 2000s. “There was no tech that I used. I never saw a college campus until I was actually enrolled in college. I thought about what life could be like if I’d had more opportunities to learn about different places, explore the world.”
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