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Jackie Sanchez is finishing her degree at DePaul University.

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STUDENT VOICE: ‘If I wanted my children to finish high school and go to college, I had to model the path for them’

by Jackie Sanchez July 22, 2019April 8, 2021

I graduated from eighth grade in 1999 one month pregnant with my first child, Jesenia, who was born in 2000. My second child, Joseph, was born in 2003. As a teen mother with little to no family support, I dropped out of high school and stayed home to care for my two young children. By […]

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