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Stories featuring The Jed Foundation
![Photo of Generation Hope's Nicole Lynn Lewis with her five children](https://ascend.gray64.dev/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC03504-768x512.jpg)
Today, Nicole Lynn Lewis is an accomplished author, CEO of Generation Hope, and mother of five. But she didn’t always feel a sense of stability and ...
![Dominique Baker and her family.](https://ascend.gray64.dev/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-04-24-at-7.13.13-PM-768x438.png)
Dominique Baker married her high school sweetheart and planned to pursue a degree in social work, but her first semester in college proved to be both ...