Brain Barriers and Breaking Barriers

When Ya’el Courtney '25 was seventeen, she was working as a manager at a Wendy’s in southern California, averaging sixty-five hours a week. With no parents to call, no car, and no health insurance, she spent her sparse free time at the public library, devouring book after book in an attempt to answer one question: What do I want to do with my life?

Read more about Ya'el's journey from poverty to PhD here.