Jonathan Burgos is the founder and executive director of First Gen Scholars, a nonprofit working to help first-generation college students from low-income families get into, and complete, college without debt.
In the days following Jada Howard’s acceptance to Northeastern University, she found herself locked in a fight with the school’s financial aid office. As a first-generation, low-income admit to the class of 2023, Howard and her mother went back and forth with the office, countering their aid offers with ones within their price range. In.