NKY Chamber Women's Initiative’s annual professional development event, the Regional Summit, is almost here – and this year’s event is designed to address a very important topic: mentorship.
volunteer opportunity because in addition to my more investigative journalism, i do a lot of celebrity profiles; beyonce, mariah carey, you know? and i wanted to do something really different. and i thought i d volunteer my time. i heard about a program where you could work with rescued youth at one of these international high schools. the more i learned about the school, the more i decided, you know, this is something i really want to write about these kids, not just volunteer. so i found a high school that was in my neighborhood in prospect heights and, you know, went over there and spent some time. host: and when did you get the idea to by their story? guest: well, it started with an article i wrote for the new york times called the stage thing called prom. and i wrote about the kids putting on their first-ever prom. they re brand new to the country, they had no idea what prom was, and, you know, that made the planning of it very difficult. and they, basically, stu
now they re, i think, the fifth year. so the class, the student body kept growing. but now i think it was the biggest class ever that was just accepted this year, and it s something around 400 students now, i think, right? how, among all those students, did you choose the ones that you would talk to and interview and then write about in your book? um, i had a question that i asked all of the teachers at the beginning of the year which was, when you go home at night, who are the students you can t stop thinking about? and, um, really the teachers led me to find these students. and one girl from china had written a college essay about coming to america. her very first week she was supposed to move in with her father who she hadn t seen in years, and when she got there on her first day, her new stepmother, basically, didn t want her there and kicked her out. and she was, when i met her, living on her own in a room that she represented in china town. so for one english teache