From the Margins to the Ivy League: My Story by Tyrone D. Taborn
“For many kids like me, especially Black boys, the schoolhouse to a jailhouse pipeline wasn’t a theory—it was reality. My half-brother went to prison for 18 years. That could have easily been me.
But then, something happened that shifted the trajectory of my life.
A Jewish man named Dan Hirsch found me—not in a headline, not in a test score, but in my humanity. He saw value where others saw trouble. He saw brilliance beneath the chaos. And with that belief, my life began to change.”