Motivated to Succeed
Alum News
Published September 13, 2016
Career: Project manager at a cancer center
Playing catch-up: “At a place like Smith, where everyone is in the top 10 percent, it highlighted the quality of my education compared to others. I never felt like I couldn’t get to where they were. I just had to work extra hard.”
Ambition rules: “Most of my success comes from me naturally being self-motivated and proactive at leveraging resources.”
This story appears in the Summer 2016 issue of the Smith Alumnae Quarterly.
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1st Gen
Changing the script: Coming to Smith as first in the family to finish college can mean culture shock and confusion. But, as one alumna says, can open doors to 'a life I never knew existed'.
Helen Lan Fong Lee AC ’03
Portland, Oregon
Sociology major
Kiara Gomez ’14
on a Fulbright in Athens, Greece
Geosciences major
Allison Bellew Sousa ’08
Boulder, Colorado
Computer science major
Sarah Coburn ’07
Philadelphia
English major
Resources for First-Generation Students
A compliation of some of the resources available to FIGS, the group of First-Generation Students that together form a community of support and success.
Photographed by Christopher T. Martin, April 26, 2016, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina