It was through persistent self-advocacy that I convinced my father to let me spend three weeks of my sophomore year of high school building a schoolin Mali through BuildOn.
As a child she was both a stay-at-home-mom (until mythree siblings and I were all inschool) and a working mom (an over-committed special education teacher).
When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead inmy workbook.