January 16, 2015
To Whom It May Concern,
Carlton Rounds contributed hundreds of hours in 2014 to assist Momentum Alliance youth from underrepresented communities, particularly undocumented youth who are first in their family to attend college, with college preparation, applications, scholarship and success.
Carlton empowered youth with knowledge about the college system from the differences between public and private colleges to the financial systems of colleges and universities. Unlike their higher income peers with college-educated parents, our youth start at a disadvantage without this knowledge. Carlton ensured that our students began this next part of their life aware of their range of options, the financial implications of their choices and the best match for their interests, personality and talents.
Carlton then worked every week with youth on their specific college selection, writing applications, rewriting and re-writing essay sand navigating scholarship options. For those youth already in their first college struggling, Carlton providing critical advice and follow-up about how to communicate with professors, appeal financial aid decisions, balance health and homework, all support they would not have had from anywhere else.
Additionally, he travelled, at our request, with one of our undocumented college student leaders, Annicia Limon-Hernandez, to San Francisco to the Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC) Conference to learn from undocumented college students and experts about the changes in immigration law and its impact on college admittance and about lessons learned nationwide about how best to support undocumented students.
His work with our students directly informed how we developed SAP Academy, our educational and career programming, based on the lessons we learned, the successes and challenges.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Shine
Co-Executive DirectorMomentum Alliance
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