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.”

Read the moving article on US Black Engineer & Information Technology, written by longtime friend of CBG Tyrone Taborn, by clicking here.

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