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Anette visits with fellow Advisory Board Member of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, Nicole Lynn Lewis. Nicole is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Generation Hope, a nonprofit organization that surrounds motivated teen parents and their children with the mentors, emotional support, and financial resources that they need to thrive in college and kindergarten, thereby driving a two-generation solution to poverty.\n\nA former teen mother who put herself through the College of William & Mary with her three-month old daughter in tow, Nicole now works every day to change the statistic that less than 2% of teen mothers will earn their degrees before age 30. Generation Hope rallies around teen parents to help them earn college degrees and forge a path to economic opportunity and is now expanding its work nationally to help colleges and universities and policymakers across the country better meet the needs of the nearly 4 million parenting students who are working toward their degrees.\n\nNicole is a member of the board of trustees of Trinity Washington University and a National Advisory Board member of The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Most recently, she was honored with the inaugural Black Voices for Black Justice Award, which \u201crecognizes incredible leaders who have been on the frontlines working to dismantle the deep-rooted, racist systems that have plagued our country for centuries,\u201d and the Boulder Fund award through Education Leaders of Color, which \u201csupports the innovations of leaders of color in education.\u201d She has received various awards, including being honored as a CNN Hero and the national grand prize winner of the Roslyn S. Jaffe Award, and has been featured on major news outlets including \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d CNN, \u201cNBC Nightly News,\u201d and The Washington Post. She is also a nationally known author and speaker with her next, highly-anticipated book, Pregnant Girl, released by Beacon Press in the spring of 2021.\n\nNicole holds a Master\u2019s degree in Social Policy and Communication from George Mason University and a Bachelor\u2019s degree in English from the College of William & Mary. Nicole and her husband, Dont\xe9 Lewis, live in Maryland with their four children.