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Education alumna builds tutoring/mentoring service from ground up
Kristina Hunter, a 2018 College of Education graduate, is a chairperson in the special education department of Baltimore City Schools and she founded Empowered Youth LLC, which empowers and encourages students to achieve social, emotional and academic success through tutoring and mentoring.
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Education alumna builds tutoring/mentoring service from ground up
Jim Carlson
July 15, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Kristina Hunter remembers when friends she made within her new church outside of Baltimore learned that she was a teacher and asked her if she did any tutoring. “Yes, I can,” she said at the time, and once she started, she’s yet to stop.
Winnipeg Free Press
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Tara Torchia, owner of The Unexpected Gift, holds a sample gift box. The subscription gift boxes allow customers to send curated gift boxes to people with cancer.
When the debilitating disease came knocking down their doors all those years ago, neither Kristina Hunter nor Tara Torchia knew what to expect.
When the debilitating disease came knocking down their doors all those years ago, neither Kristina Hunter nor Tara Torchia knew what to expect.
Cancer is excruciating, agonizing and numbing almost all at once, the Winnipeg women told the
Free Press. And no one seems to understand how it feels.