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    • 2Gen Approach
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2023 Ascend PSP Parent Advisors

These Parent Advisors join Ascend’s Postsecondary Success for Parents initiative (PSP) to help shape Ascend’s expanded agenda to improve higher education policy and practice for student parents. Parent Advisors, who are current or former student parents, will be leading voices in the growing movement to address the needs of the one in five college students in the U.S. raising children.

Nicole Alkire Grady
Sitting Bull College
North Dakota
Ignacio Angel Jr.
Santa Monica Community College
California
Cherrill Dominique Baker
West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology
Michigan
Mikah Jorgensen
Triton College
Illinois
Karlee Knuth
University of Texas at Tyler
Texas
Brittnee Marsaw
Family and Workforce Centers of America’s Skillup Program
Missouri
Christian Ortiz
Hunter College
New York
Isis Patterson
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Massachusetts
Jessica Pelton
University of Michigan
Michigan
Maria Isabel Ramos Martinez
University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Kimberly Salazar
University of California, Berkeley
California
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