an american, an extraordinary, massachusetts high-school grad reminds us of our ability to overcome and be better. >> we are resilient. and i say resilient, because if we're being honest with ourselves, some of us were born with the odds stacked against us, that we may not make it today. that every immigrant child, you can make it. and to every dreamer, you can make it. and to every child in america, you can make it. >> can't make me cry. too much makeup. verda teda. harvard-bound scholarship. wasn't born here. came here with her family. workeder her butt off, the whole